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They should recall that the Tathagata, in making use of them in explaining the Dharma always uses them in the semblance of a raft that is of use only to cross a river. As the raft is of no further use after the river is crossed, it should be discarded. So these arbitrary conceptions of things and about things should be wholly given up as one attains enlightenment. -Buddha
Science is the recursive algorithm of "observe, hypothesise, test". Nothing more or less. We use it because it is useful. No "belief system": scientific knowledge is just a collection of explanatory and predictive hypotheses that have not yet been disproved.One is (or should be) always aware of the potential influence of the observer on the observed, but it's usually less of a problem than the preconception of the observer affecting the interpretation of the observation. For this reason, good science keeps well away from philosophy of any sort. Zen seems to have the same aversion to preconception but it's quite irrelevant.
Also - I am reading The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbot and it is all over this stuff. Check it out, you will not be sorry.
Quote from: alancalverd on 23/03/2015 08:25:22Science is the recursive algorithm of "observe, hypothesise, test". Nothing more or less. We use it because it is useful. No "belief system": scientific knowledge is just a collection of explanatory and predictive hypotheses that have not yet been disproved.One is (or should be) always aware of the potential influence of the observer on the observed, but it's usually less of a problem than the preconception of the observer affecting the interpretation of the observation. For this reason, good science keeps well away from philosophy of any sort. Zen seems to have the same aversion to preconception but it's quite irrelevant.Isn't saying it is irrelevant a preconception?