“Theories are nets cast to catch what we call ‘the world’: to rationalize, to explain, and to master it. We endeavour to make the mesh ever finer and finer.”
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper
Never underestimate your experiences and observations, even if they are in complete contradiction to the claims of others.
“In demanding objectivity for basic statements as well as for other scientific statements, we deprive ourselves of any logical means by which we might have hoped to reduce the truth of scientific statements to our experiences.”
The Logic of Scientific Discovery by Karl Popper
Is cow’s milk healthy for people, or unhealthy?
Is dry cat food bad for cats, or good?
Why do scientists give us contradictory information?
“I feel resentful and I can’t be silent when scientists think wrong in their mind (…).”
Letter to the Scholarly Neighbour by Anton Chekhov
What is my inference?
“Mother Nature is a book that needs to be read and seen.”
Letter to the Scholarly Neighbour by Anton Chekhov
Migotka
Sofya Lvovna, vain and spoiled girl, reflected on difficult things:
“But of course there is a God — there certainly is a God; and I shall have to die, so that sooner or later one must think of one’s soul, of eternal life, like Olga (Olga went into the nunnery). Olga is saved now; she has settled all questions for herself. . . . But if there is no God? Then her life is wasted. But how is it wasted? Why is it wasted?”
And a minute later the thought came into her mind again:
“There is a God; death must come; one must think of one’s soul. (…)”
“The Two Volodyas” by Anton Chekhov
Scientists also stumble over notion of the soul:
Recently, biocentrism and other scientific theories have also started to challenge the old physico-chemical paradigm, and to ask some of the difficult questions about life: Is there a soul? Does anything endure the ravages of time?
Life and consciousness are central to this new view of being, reality and the cosmos. Although the current scientific paradigm is based on the belief that the world has an objective observer-independent existence, real experiments suggest just the opposite. We think life is just the activity of atoms and particles, which spin around for a while and then dissipate into nothingness. But if we add life to the equation, we can explain some of the major puzzles of modern science, including the uncertainty principle, entanglement, and the fine-tuning of the laws that shape the universe.
Consider the famous two-slit experiment. When you watch a particle go through the holes, it behaves like a bullet, passing through one slit or the other. But if no one observes the particle, it exhibits the behavior of a wave and can pass through both slits at the same time. This and other experiments tell us that unobserved particles exist only as ‘waves of probability’ as the great Nobel laureate Max Born demonstrated in 1926. They’re statistical predictions – nothing but a likely outcome. Until observed, they have no real existence; only when the mind sets the scaffolding in place, can they be thought of as having duration or a position in space. Experiments make it increasingly clear that even mere knowledge in the experimenter’s mind is sufficient to convert possibility to reality.
Many scientists dismiss the implications of these experiments, because until recently, this observer-dependent behavior was thought to be confined to the subatomic world. However, this is being challenged by researchers around the world. In fact, just this year a team of physicists (Gerlich et al, Nature Communications 2:263, 2011) showed that quantum weirdness also occurs in the human-scale world. They studied huge compounds composed of up to 430 atoms, and confirmed that this strange quantum behavior extends into the larger world we live in.
Importantly, this has a direct bearing on the question of whether humans and other living creatures have souls. As Kant pointed out over 200 years ago, everything we experience – including all the colors, sensations and objects we perceive – are nothing but representations in our mind. Space and time are simply the mind’s tools for putting it all together. Now, to the amusement of idealists, scientists are beginning dimly to recognize that those rules make existence itself possible. Indeed, the experiments above suggest that objects only exist with real properties if they are observed. The results not only defy our classical intuition, but suggest that a part of the mind – the soul – is immortal and exists outside of space and time.
“The hope of another life” wrote Will Durant “gives us courage to meet our own death, and to bear with the death of our loved ones; we are twice armed if we fight with faith.”
And we are thrice armed if we fight with science.
This excerpt comes from: Does The Soul Exist? Evidence Says ‘Yes’
New scientific theory recognizes life’s spiritual dimension
Published on December 21, 2011 by Robert Lanza
We mix different concepts of the soul in one bowl as ingredients for dough, and later we obtain the sad layer cake. This post is one of them.
(…) tutor picks up the arithmetic and dictates the following problem to him (Pete).
”’If a merchant buys 138 yards of cloth, some of which is black and some blue, for 540 roubles, how many yards of each did he buy if the blue cloth cost 5 roubles a yard and the black cloth 3?’ Repeat what I have just said.”
Peter repeats the problem and instantly and silently begins to divide 540 by 138.
“What are you doing? Wait a moment! No, no, go ahead! Is there a remainder? There ought not to be. Here, let me do it!”
Ziboroff divides 540 by 138, and finds that it goes three times and something over. He quickly rubs out the sum.
“How queer!” he thinks, ruffling his hair and flushing. “How should it be done? H’m–this is an indeterminate equation and not a sum in arithmetic at all–“
The tutor looks in the back of the book and finds that the answer is 75 and 63.
“H’m–that’s queer. Ought I to add 5 and 3 and divide 540 by 8? Is that right? No that’s not it. Come, do the sum!” he says to Pete.
“The Tutor” by Anton Chekhov
“In all, 77% of the students seemed to believe that math was not something that could be figured out, or that made sense. It was just a set of procedures and rules to be memorized. This is, of course, exactly the opposite of true. (…) students do not see mathematics as a logical system because their teachers do not present it that way.”
“US Math Achievement: How Bad Is It?” Published on November 27, 2012 by Nate Kornell, Ph.D. in “Everybody is Stupid Except You”
We all are lousy mathematicians. What kind of economists who want to experience prosperity by harming others? What kind of minds of science who build nuclear power plants on land experiencing dangerous earthquakes?
Numbers apply to all our decisions, our thoughts, our words, etc. Mathematical calculations must be correct.
1+1=?
Think about a man who wants to have more than two toys. He, in certain circumstances, says: 1+1=5. In favourable circumstances he receives 5 toys. Mathematical calculation, however, is not correct. Somewhere a tension is created because something is missing.
Of course, not everything is suitable for counting and calculation. We do not know how to measure our thoughts or ethical conducts. But those defects should not bother us because we are gifted with intuition. Our deeds are numbers of specified parameters. Mathematical equation must be correct.
How many branches are in the wheelbarrow?
in my hands 