Remaking America by George Shollenberger, Idea XXXXXIII (Changing the World from Mechanism to Holism, I)
The three books in the last three blogs could change man’s view of things in the world drastically. With this change, mechanical things would become holistic. This change would reveal different realities to all people. Making this change must thus become the highest priority in every nation after holism was rejected by the Western world scientists forty years ago. Unfortunately, today’s Western religions follow the mechanical world theory because a mechanical world has an end.Today, our high school, college, and university teachers are atheistic because they must teach the principles of the mechanist world or the ‘billiard-ball’ universe of Newton. Thus, many teachers must be retrained before holism can be applied nationally. So I urge President Obama and other national leaders to act now. Once holism is understood, I expect terrorism, different religions, wars, greed, hatred, and crime will fade away from the life of humans quickly.
A mechanistic world and a holistic world are as different as night and day. Both scientists accept things as wholes. But they define the wholes differently, A mechanist defines a whole as the sum of its parts. But a holist defines a whole as more that the sum of its parts. I discuss the difference between man-made and God-made wholes at 11/18/08. The parts of a mechanistic whole are known by their causes and effects. But the parts of a holistic whole form a structure of the togetherness. These parts communicate with other parts and other wholes.
Many proofs of holism can be found today. For example, human crime cannot be explained with causes and effects. And the inability of mechanists to solve the problem of cancer is proof that cancer is an unwanted holistic thing.
I cannot overstate the problem in science today. I believe that today’s economic problem is small compared to today’s problem in the field of science.
posted by George Shollenberger @ 10:39 AM
2 Comments:
At 5:08 AM,
Anonymous said…
I am an expatriate academic economist in Australasia. I am self taught in the subject of your blog.
First I note that you have discovered Leibniz, the most remarkable European ever. When he died 300 years ago, about 1 million manuscript pages were found in his study. These papers and correspondence were not catalogued until about 1900. The complete edition of his works is only 40% complete. This is the most daunting editorial job in world history.
Arthur Lovejoy of Johns Hopkins revered Leibniz. There is still only one biography of Leibniz in English, by Eric Aiton. Leibniz scholarship did not really get underway until after WWII.
I am writing a paper on what are called the anthropic coincidences. These coincidences call into question any naturalistic explanation of the universe and the laws of physics. Agnostic physicists, backed into a corner, are postulating that our universe is but one in, say 10^500 universes, and that ours is a very rare one that can support life. Moreover, they have no idea of what conceivable observational evidence will betray the existence of these other universes. I say that this is the mother of all "just so" stories.
It is much more economical to conclude that a Higher Reality carefully crafted our universe and its wonderful laws. And that that Reality cares about us. Whether that Reality has manifested itself to us in way other than the Book of Nature (the one Galileo said was written in mathematics), and whether there is any point in worshiping or praying to that Reality, I do not know.
Are you aware of the life work of Frank Tipler at Tulane University? It was buying Barrow and Tipler's 1986 monograph that led me to the sort of thinking in your blog and in this post. Do you know Brandon Carter's writings on the anthropic principles? The UK particle physicist become Anglican clergyman John Polkinghorn? The Catholic priest with a physics PhD, Stanley Jaki? Freeman Dyson's remarkable Templeton Prize lecture of 2000?
The universe began in an extremely uniform state, consisting of massless particles interacting according to a single force. The universe then expanded, and cooled because of that expansion. The cooling led to a vast increase in the complexity of the universe, culminating in the formation of stars and galaxies. Then life on Earth, then our species, then the scientific and mathematical revolution that began in Galileo's day, on whose crest we ride.
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At 6:42 PM,
George Shollenberger said…
response to anonymous,
I am an expatriate academic economist in Australasia. I am self taught in the subject of your blog.
George: Good, because self-knowledge it the only real knowledge.
First I note that you have discovered Leibniz, the most remarkable European ever. When he died 300 years ago, about 1 million manuscript pages were found in his study. These papers and correspondence were not catalogued until about 1900. The complete edition of his works is only 40% complete. This is the most daunting editorial job in world history.
George: I have Leibniz’s recent translation by Parkinson. The USA citizens do not understand the history of knowledge.
Arthur Lovejoy of Johns Hopkins revered Leibniz. There is still only one biography of Leibniz in English, by Eric Aiton. Leibniz scholarship did not really get underway until after WWII.
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George: I will do searches on Lovejoy and Aiton.
I am writing a paper on what are called the anthropic coincidences. These coincidences call into question any naturalistic explanation of the universe and the laws of physics. Agnostic physicists, backed into a corner, are postulating that our universe is but one in, say 10,500 universes, and that ours is a very rare one that can support life. Moreover, they have no idea of what conceivable observational evidence will betray the existence of these other universes. I say that this is the mother of all "just so" stories.
George: Good subject of a paper today because evolution is oversold with the 10, 500 universes.
It is much more economical to conclude that a Higher Reality carefully crafted our universe and its wonderful laws. And that Reality cares about us. Whether that Reality has manifested itself to us in way other than the Book of Nature (the one Galileo said was written in mathematics), and whether there is any point in worshiping or praying to that Reality, I do not know.
American scientists do not understand Galileo. My book, "The First Scientific Proof of God," is a proof of ‘the origin of things,’ not processes. I conclude that God and Leibniz’s monads are the basic things.
Are you aware of the life work of Frank Tipler at Tulane University? It was buying Barrow and Tipler's 1986 monograph that led me to the sort of thinking in your blog and in this post. Do you know Brandon Carter's writings on the anthropic principles? The UK particle physicist become Anglican clergyman John Polkinghorn? The Catholic priest with a physics PhD, Stanley Jaki? Freeman Dyson's remarkable Templeton Prize lecture of 2000?
George: I must do research on these personalities.
The universe began in an extremely uniform state, consisting of massless particles interacting according to a single force. The universe then expanded, and cooled because of that expansion. The cooling led to a vast increase in the complexity of the universe, culminating in the formation of stars and galaxies. Then life on Earth, then our species, then the scientific and mathematical revolution that began in Galileo's day, on whose crest we ride.
George: my theory of the world has one God, an intelligent design, and creatures. As creatures, we have the major responsibilities to God. I believe that Jesus Christ is just another human like you and me. I have found that the unknown years of Jesus can be connected to Greek thoughts.
George: I will give you my email address.
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