Sunday, November 12, 2023

Science and Spiritual Realm

"You can make th sound of two hands clapping, Now what is the sound of one hand?" 

- Tao of Physics (p.49)


I think there's an interesting point the book Tao of Physics tells us about. Eastern beliefs think the way researchers think, and observe the way scientists observe. Could it be that, because we are all human after all? there's a limited way of what we can do to make sense of our world. Creativity and understanding are 'enlightenment' that humans receive when they try hard enough to be mindful and thoughtful. 

To me, science is one way to make sense of the world through evidence humans receive through sense receptors, which would be proved because the majority of people receive the same thing, and it becomes 'objective'. But science, if you push the notion too far, science can't explain its own discourse, hence the spiritual realm is omnipresent and interconnected with science. Like what Capra said in the book " Fishing baskets are employed to catch fish, but when the fish are got, the men forget the baskets" we tend to forget that science is never independent, but a product of humans to understand the 'mystical' realm we experiences.

This also reminds me of design. No one can make an absolute assessment of design if it's a good design or bad design. If the evidence says that a design is a good design, it's still a difficult task to explain why it's good. Because design is a combination of objectivity and subjectivity, that's why the work of design is mysterious.

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