We live in a period of epistemological crisis that echoes the one that gave rise to modern science. This essay looks at the early modern crisis of knowledge, draws a parallel between it and the present, and explores how we might use the lessons of the past to create a more democratic science in the future that fulfills its promise of unveiling a comprehensible world that is universally understood.
Schisms Beyond Arithmetick: how science's past might be its future
7 days later
Rick Searle
Deep comprehensive analysis, strong essay. Great conclusions.
<<The dream of modern science when it was created so many centuries ago was not only that the world was comprehensible, but that the mind of an individual was sufficient to obtain this comprehension.>>
How to overcome the epistemological crisis, which has transformed into a global existential crisis?
A Big Ontological Revolution is needed to build a New Expanded Ideality - a new ontological basis of knowledge: ontological framework, carcass, foundations.
Good philosophical testaments to the revolutionaries of the future of science:
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: "The true physics is that which will, one day, achieve the inclusion of man in his wholeness in a coherent picture of the world."
A. Einstein “I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified."
P. Florensky: “We repeat: worldunderstanding is spaceunderstanding."
Thank you for your kind words Vladimir. I completely side with your revolutionaries,
10 days later
Rick Searle
First impressions: a nice gem of interdisciplinary and historically cognizant critique of the current malaise. Will have more to say later. Good luck.