Thank you very much! An inspiring, deep and critical essay that gives impetus to the mind to look for a way to overcome the modern conceptual - paradigmatic crisis of the metaphysical basis of fundamental science, manifesting itself as a "crisis of understanding" (J. Horgan "The End of Science", K. Kopeikin "Souls" of atoms and "atoms" of the soul ").
First essay you write:
"... You are a witness to the entire history of the cosmos, from its birth to this very moment, and you know that his perfect dance is set by indestructible laws."
Why "laws" and not one "Law"?
Recall the Axiom of Tradition:
"In the Beginning was the Logos..."
In the Dictionary of the Ancient Greek Language by I. Dvoretsky, the word LOGOS has 34 bushes, i.e. over a hundred values. And what is the most important of them? This is "logos" = "law", which permeates both science and society, uniting them. That is, "Logos" must be understood broadly, philosophically in the spirit of Heraclitus as a MetaLaw that governs the Cosmos (the Universe). And the "laws of nature" that Science gives us are only partial representatives of the Law/Logos and the studied phenomena of Nature.
Galileo, in his famous quote about the "mathematician-language of Nature", gives us a hint for "grasping" (understanding) the primordial structure of the "language of Nature", namely:
<<Egli è scritto in lingua matematica, e i caratteri son triangoli, cerchi, ed altre figure geometriche, senza i quali mezi è impossibile a intenderne umanamente parola..>>
In the first place is the "triangle", as a figure that allows you to understand the "language of Nature". And remember also Plato's "celestial triangle"...
It is the "celestial triangle", its modern dialectico-ontological interpretation that makes it possible to understand matter in a new way (in the spirit of Plato's ideas) and taking into account all the problems in the foundations of knowledge: MATTER is that from which all meanings, forms and structures are born (material and ideal ). Only having "grasped" (understood) the ontological structure of matter as an integral generative process, we will be able to understand ("grab") the ontological structure of the existential (absolute) space, its ontological and gnoseological dimensions.
No wonder the philosopher Pavel Florensky left us such a testament: “We repeat: worldunderstanding is spaceunderstanding.”
Thus, we will be able to build step by step "a super-unified field theory that describes both physical and semantic manifestations of the World." (mathematician and philosopher Vasily Nalimov "The Self-Aware Universe"), to solve the problem of the ontological substantiation of mathematics (and therefore knowledge in general) as an "archi-difficult" one. and the "hard problem of consciousness." And in the end, imagine the "three worlds" in a single mathematical symbol, which Galileo Galilei suggested to us, solving all the "difficult problems", and continuing to unravel the "secrets" of Nature as a single integral generative process.
I fully agree with you:
"Stepping out of the science bubble, with its emphasis on objective phenomena and a functional understanding of reality (but without abandoning critical thinking and rational inquiry) will be needed in order to reconnect us with a deeper sense of meaning, and allow us to really feel “at home in the universe”
Good luck in the Сompetition!
