Friday, May 13, 2011

Open your mind to this






We sense ourselves as discrete beings
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Separate from the universe around us.
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Accordingly, the Scientific Method is unable to handle phenomena of which the experimenter is an inseparable aspect.
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Suppose something like telepathy works if and only if the experimenter genuinely believes it will.
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If this is the case, telepathy is inherently beyond the reach of the Scientific Method, because the experiment is not freely replicable.
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A skeptical experimenter cannot confirm it by precisely replicating the "initial conditions", because the initial conditions bring different results for different experimenters.
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This failure of determinism—identical initial conditions bringing different results—can only be resolved by recognizing the experimenter as part of those conditions, thereby invalidating the principle of objectivity.
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C. Eisenstein
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And if you can buy into this then many, many other things are not true either
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Look around you
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Pay more attention to the death throws of reductionism
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To the many abject failures of modern technology to provide answers
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Notice how narrow our certainty is about so many things.
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One little push
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One little crack
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One little change
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Suddenly all our certainties are gone
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And this is our world today
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One of increasing stress and insecurities
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Learn to live in the moment and let go of your belief in certainties

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