Krystic
29th June 2011, 20:20
Peter Russell
Spirit of Now
Western science has had remarkable success in explaining the functioning of the material world, but when it comes to the inner world of the mind, it has very little to say. And when it comes to consciousness itself, science falls curiously silent. There is nothing in physics, chemistry, biology, or any other science that can account for our having an interior world. In a strange way, scientists would be much happier if minds did not exist. Yet without minds there would be no science.
This ever-present paradox may be pushing Western science into what Thomas Kuhn called a paradigm shift?a fundamental change in worldview.
This process begins when the prevalent paradigm encounters an anomaly ? an observation that the current worldview can?t explain. As far
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/06/does-our-brain-really-create.html
Spirit of Now
Western science has had remarkable success in explaining the functioning of the material world, but when it comes to the inner world of the mind, it has very little to say. And when it comes to consciousness itself, science falls curiously silent. There is nothing in physics, chemistry, biology, or any other science that can account for our having an interior world. In a strange way, scientists would be much happier if minds did not exist. Yet without minds there would be no science.
This ever-present paradox may be pushing Western science into what Thomas Kuhn called a paradigm shift?a fundamental change in worldview.
This process begins when the prevalent paradigm encounters an anomaly ? an observation that the current worldview can?t explain. As far
http://www.activistpost.com/2011/06/does-our-brain-really-create.html