I'm constantly in awe of the exponential developments that are occurring in all scientific endeavor. There is cross-linkage, or connectivity between a great many disciplines. The internet with inquiry software such as the extraordinary Google, is a vast, powerful resource enabling cross-linkages of any conceivable kind. Facebook created just a few years ago, enabling any group of interest, inter-connectivity, is just the latest resource.
At the same time, there are nations and religions in the world that find inter-connectivity challenging and destabilizing. In a world where scientific endeavor depends upon open resource sharing for development, a major portion of the world population remains unconnected, aware, and in some cases, huge populations are prevented by sanctions, from attempting to inter-connect, or if successful in crossing a proscribed boundary, are penalized for any development attempted which incorporate elements received through unsanctioned inter-connectivity.
The root of the problem is in how we are formally established, and in the boundary defenses we have developed unconsciously and consciously, to maintain the integrity of our form saving boundary.
My observation of scientific method is that in application, over every subject, every form of knowledge, there is an authority. In every religion, there is a pre-eminent authority. In every kingdom, there is a singular authority. History and progress is a recording of events of changes in authority. In ancient times any prognostication was carried out by leave of authority.
ReplyDeleteThere are of course, very good reasons for this submission of all social function to the pleasure of a chief authority. In an age when little is known of the causes of natural events, whether lightning, thunder, or eclipses; when plagues occur; when enemies move on opportunity, any society must act in unison, quickly and obediently, or the entire society may be destroyed.
Because all of humanity has this ontology of submission, inquiry could not find support except by the convention, by the grace of God, and the pleasure of the king...."Let it happen..."
For this reason, although Determination is at the root of all inquiry, and Formality is an unquestioned assumption, in the world of ideas and things, the idea of any determination separate from the pleasure of the worldly authority has been a non-starter.
Rene Descartes found the crack in the door at a time in Europe, when worldly authority was being challenged as the ultimate reference. It was nonetheless a time of great danger for anyone in a university or in an administration to add fuel to the fires of reformation. Yet, his 'cogito, ergo sum' was a stunner. The acting of thinking connected with the concept of being was right at the margin of dangerous endeavor. Connected also with the method of scientific inquiry along with the cartesian tool of analysis, Motive was quietly separated from worldly divine sanction. Even in the 20th century, the concepts of thinking and doing were considered separate functions. Only within the past 15 YEARS, has the church moved on its pronouncements on Galileo!
Today, technology of tool function is being married to neurological function. In other words, thinking is all about determining is all about doing.
Yet, the very many complex formations that merge within our civilized and educated beings struggle with our atavistic sanctions on independent determination, to find all the synergies within our faiths, sciences and technologies, awaiting discovery.
Therefore, obvious or not, this Foundation Theory needs to see the light of day.