More on science, consciousness (some physicists' early explorations) on npr today:
Irrelevant, this topic, for any who have decided that the methods of science can/shall reveal answers to any questions wondered-about: now or next. (To accept that, you must also acknowledge that our understanding of 'Energy': its kaleidoscope of sub-categories, is now near-enough solved as to be deemed complete.)
The Edges of Science .
Today's offering, via 3 books, describes an interesting time when credentialed-scientists focussed their analytic skills upon purported para-normal events. While most of these proved to be bogus/or even scams, some events defied rational explanation, (including a mentioned experience of one of these investigators.)
Alas towards the end of this section, when Chopra chimes-in re (basically, our ignorance of consciousness itself) his antagonist suggests that, pretty much ~"we'll have a map of imagination (implicitly consciousness too) Real Soon now." And the host was out of time.
What this brief commentary had no time to follow up was a comment at opening, "What. if. serious scientists, with today's techno, were to again focus upon incidents today, of similar strangeness (selecting out those reports whose author tests too-sane to handily discredit, say?) I suspect there's little inclination to risk obloquy from one's cohorts ... but it would have been worth hearing the repartee, I thought. There's so much bogosity-noise around the most subtle of events-within-consciousness, it's understandable that such a Tar-baby topic would be eschewed--by most of those best-suited to seek truthiness (wherever discernible.) Catch 22.
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The Edges of Science
How do we know what's real? Can science tell us, or is there an unseen reality we'll never understand? The show explores the borderlands of knowledge and reflects on some remarkable episodes in the history of science -- Nobel laureates who investigated ghosts and a pioneer of quantum physics who found messages in his dreams.
The Edges of Science .
Today's offering, via 3 books, describes an interesting time when credentialed-scientists focussed their analytic skills upon purported para-normal events. While most of these proved to be bogus/or even scams, some events defied rational explanation, (including a mentioned experience of one of these investigators.)
Alas towards the end of this section, when Chopra chimes-in re (basically, our ignorance of consciousness itself) his antagonist suggests that, pretty much ~"we'll have a map of imagination (implicitly consciousness too) Real Soon now." And the host was out of time.
What this brief commentary had no time to follow up was a comment at opening, "What. if. serious scientists, with today's techno, were to again focus upon incidents today, of similar strangeness (selecting out those reports whose author tests too-sane to handily discredit, say?) I suspect there's little inclination to risk obloquy from one's cohorts ... but it would have been worth hearing the repartee, I thought. There's so much bogosity-noise around the most subtle of events-within-consciousness, it's understandable that such a Tar-baby topic would be eschewed--by most of those best-suited to seek truthiness (wherever discernible.) Catch 22.
