Physics appears to
be following an interesting trend, at least as of late, and within my
awareness, that has looped its progress almost back to where it had gotten its
origin. For a long time, after peaking
during such eras as the Renaissance and the Age of Reason, objectivity has done
battle with subjectivity. The rallying
cry called for verifiable evidence of falsifiable phenomena, theory, and
results. This is "the scientific
method." Gather data, correlate,
and generate consistent evidence of something.
"Pure" scientific method should only be dealing with
observable phenomena, and it should be able to be recreated through
experimentation elsewhere. It is not a
prediction tool, per se. It isn't
entirely illogical to take results of experiments, have them verified as a
consistent phenomena, then use that to give likelihoods. We derive probabilities, which is necessary
for progress. However, it is supposed to
be viciously contested and thoroughly tested for maximum certainty.
Some say that
science is the new religion. It is
likely true. Physics has been the
flagship for science for quite a while.
"Mathifying" the world and what we encounter lends many a sort
of security within a seemingly immense, uncaring, inscrutable existence that we
find ourselves in. It helps us all find
a method to pass data in a form that can be decrypted and recoded. It's a grab at the abstract to eliminate
language diversity perverting a concept.
It can give a multi-translatable medium that is the same for everyone,
regardless of the vast and sweeping currents of capricious interpretation. 2 is always 2, 4 is always 4, and 2 + 2 is
always 4, too. Subjectivity has been
wrung out of math and physics in the hopes to find and understand a stable,
consistent universe. (You can probably
relate the concept to that of the one between Java and the number of different
web browsers. Java is multiplatform,
functioning no matter the medium. It is
a means to give a distributive uniformity and utility, all "under one
roof.")
By putting physics
in the frontlines, it has reached the border of objectivity perhaps the
soonest. Pushing ever deeper into the
realm of fundamental reality has had physics come upon an interesting dilemma.
I think one can trace this path starting somewhere around the time Einstein and
others began dealing with relativity, going onto quantum mechanics, string
theory, etc. Let's fast-forward through
that…
With the discovery
of the Uncertainty Principle, consciousness has become a cause instead of an
effect. A Supreme Objective Reality has
suddenly flipped. Subjectivity has begun
having a viable role in the operations of reality and the universe. You cannot have a reality without SOMETHING
knowing there even IS a reality. Weird
quantum effects has left those in earlier paradigms of physics scratching their
heads. There is suddenly an intrinsic
and irremovable relationship between the observer and the observed. Phenomena previously ostracized by the
rational world as superstitious, religious, or psychological, has importance,
albeit in a different light. Science has
gone and demystified reality to the extent now it begins to take on a new
mysticism. Once consciousness began
taking the spotlight, explanations transformed into sense. It only served to prove what it had so
exuberantly had tried to disprove.
I should leave it
at that, for the moment. I hope to find
and present key points that might give greater confidence in this idea. It is a broad and strangely vectored web or
netting of various sources. Each
deserves greater attention. Some of them
include Tom Campbell, Chris Langan, Terence McKenna, Rob Bryanton, and Stuart
Hameroff.
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