Questioning Core Assumptions

From SolSeed

Back to the Longest Night Festival

Participants

• Art Brock ... convener
• Ben Sibelman

Discussion

• Current scientific methods are about separation (isolating phenomena, keeping the observer from affecting the experiment, etc)
• There is a paradigm shift afoot to more systems-focused science, where we look at relationships and flows
• Aspects of the new system
  • Acknowledges that people are not rational
    • Helps avoid long periods of denial before accepting a new model that better fits the evidence
      • Which in turn helps science adapt to the rapid pace of change in the modern world
      • Example: new version of the ether theory, positing a plasma (instead of a solid) that establishes an absolute reference frame
  • Acknowledges that many steps in science are subjective, not objective
  • Sees objects as momentary accumulations in a flow
    • Transcends and includes description of the world as objects