Gnosis, Faith and the Creation of the Bicameral Mind
In my copy of Phaedo, Socrates is translated as saying "Many are called to carry the mystic wand, but few are chosen to use it." The old philosopher goes on in a pre-gnostic vein to state that purifying one's soul through the ever more finely grained pursuit of truth and justice will bring one into the company of the immortals. Or so he fondly hopes. Do you believe he owed a cock to Aesculapius? Or do you know it?
Faith and knowledge. Science and art. Left brain/right brain. Stereoscopic vision.
Duality in the mind creates duality in the brain. Why do women's corpus callosi, on average, carry so much more info than the average guy's? Will these niggling questions never cease?
My edition of the Brittanica states: " [ ] ....is dependent upon the understanding of the universe; hence it is the duty of believers to put it into the new setting, so that it adopts and adapts astronomy, geology, biology, and psychology."
Psychology as yet has no insights into consciousness to compare to Socrates' and Kant's. In my humble opinion.
Biology, if we will allow botany to assert its humble claim as a division of this great science, does, however, have new insights that can be so adapted. The ability of chlorophyll to extract nearly 100% of the energy of incident photons has been recently elucidated. Apparently, in a manner analogous to the destruction of the Tacoma Narrows bridge, the wave length of the light is precisely tuned to the architecture of the chlorophyll molecule. But instead of destruction we get........a free lunch!
Geology. Consider poor old von Wegener, who like most kids with a National Geographic map of the world, saw how neatly S. America fits into Africa and even correlated the geologic strata. He was laughed out of town. Circumstantial evidence. You've got no motive, Alfred; therefore no case. Faith in common sense will get him and you.....what, exactly? Eureka! Plate tectonics. Motive revealed. Von Wegener redeemed? Faith? Knowledge? What have we learned about the scientific method? Ask Kuhn.
Astronomy. Consider the lowly black hole. Now possibly produced at the submicroscopic level.
Will you put a hook through Leviathan's nose? Maybe so. An accretion disc was recently found to be directing a blast at a nearby cosmic body. Dermabrasion? Cosmic engraving? Star wars?
Nothing is but thinking makes it so. Purify your thoughts.
Faith and knowledge. Science and art. Left brain/right brain. Stereoscopic vision.
Duality in the mind creates duality in the brain. Why do women's corpus callosi, on average, carry so much more info than the average guy's? Will these niggling questions never cease?
My edition of the Brittanica states: " [ ] ....is dependent upon the understanding of the universe; hence it is the duty of believers to put it into the new setting, so that it adopts and adapts astronomy, geology, biology, and psychology."
Psychology as yet has no insights into consciousness to compare to Socrates' and Kant's. In my humble opinion.
Biology, if we will allow botany to assert its humble claim as a division of this great science, does, however, have new insights that can be so adapted. The ability of chlorophyll to extract nearly 100% of the energy of incident photons has been recently elucidated. Apparently, in a manner analogous to the destruction of the Tacoma Narrows bridge, the wave length of the light is precisely tuned to the architecture of the chlorophyll molecule. But instead of destruction we get........a free lunch!
Geology. Consider poor old von Wegener, who like most kids with a National Geographic map of the world, saw how neatly S. America fits into Africa and even correlated the geologic strata. He was laughed out of town. Circumstantial evidence. You've got no motive, Alfred; therefore no case. Faith in common sense will get him and you.....what, exactly? Eureka! Plate tectonics. Motive revealed. Von Wegener redeemed? Faith? Knowledge? What have we learned about the scientific method? Ask Kuhn.
Astronomy. Consider the lowly black hole. Now possibly produced at the submicroscopic level.
Will you put a hook through Leviathan's nose? Maybe so. An accretion disc was recently found to be directing a blast at a nearby cosmic body. Dermabrasion? Cosmic engraving? Star wars?
Nothing is but thinking makes it so. Purify your thoughts.
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