[MD] Philosophy and Philosophology

[John Carl]

Greetings Ham,

You commented to Andre,


> The "world of appearances", to use Hegel's phrase, is experiential
> Existence.  It is man's experience of "otherness" as a dynamic
> cause-and-effect system that is ordered in space,  evolutionary in time, and
> relative to the observer.  I maintain that physical existence is not
> ultimate Reality but, rather, the valuistic construction of the subjective
> mind.
>

Which newly  interests me for its proximity to what I'm reading of
biocentrism:

 According to biocentrism, space and time are not hard, cold physical
objects, but rather forms of animal sense perception. When we speak of time,
we inevitably describe it in terms of change. But change is not the same
thing as time. Consider Heisenberg's famous 'uncertainty principle.' If
there was really a world out there with particles just bouncing around, then
you should be able to measure all their properties. But it turns out you
can't - for instance, a particle's exact location and momentum cannot be
known at the same time. They're like the man and the women in the
cuckoo-clock - when one goes in the other comes out. This uncertainty is
built in the fabric of the universe, but no one has a clue why. It only
makes sense if we accept the fact that the universe is biocentric.

By treating space and time as fundamental and independent things, we pick a
completely wrong starting point for understanding the world. In fact, new
experiments are starting to confirm that quantum effects apply to the
everyday world of human-scale objects.

Biocentrism unlocks the cage we have unwittingly confined ourselves. A new
paradigm is usually considered nonsense from within the existing paradigm.
But allowing the observer into the equation opens new approaches to
understanding everything from the tiny world of the atom to our views of
life and death. Above all, biocentrism offers a more promising way to bring
together all of science as scientists have been attempting to do ever since
Einstein. Until we recognize the universe in our heads, attempts to truly
understand the world will remain a road to nowhere.