Blog post4/22/16

(68) superatheist says April 22, 2016 at 6:49 am John Phillips, FCD(65), Chikoppi(64)

What I know about science is that it is all about proposing theories based on how different people see reality and how nature functions. Nearly all proposed theories are wrong, few are scientific, but every once in a while a bad theory or idea sticks, like a piece of dog poop to the bottom of your shoe where it is worthless, annoying and stinks to high heaven. This is what I call ideas like superstitions, supernatural beliefs, new age woo woo, creationism, religions dogmas etc. But there is another set of more rational and scientifically coherent ideas that are proposed by scientists and other thinkers most of them are wrong also (like phlogiston). They have to withstand the scrutiny of all criticisms no matter how irrational these criticisms might be. It took thousand of years for the atomic theory to be accepted. Evolution is science but it is still not accepted as true by many and is attached mercilessly by the ignorant. By being as critical as you can be about awaretheory you are doing the right thing. Science and society needs people that are willing and brave enough to propose very divergent ideas other wise science becomes stagnant and goes nowhere. Frequently, wrong ideas stimulate people to think outside of the box, so to speak, and come up with better ideas producing paradigm shifts in our understanding. I completely understand your desire to attack personal aspects about me. If you did not I would think that the ideas I was proposing were pretty wimpy. I may well be a person with every bad aspect that you can call me like ignorant, deluded, self important, baby eater, dog beater, plastic burner etc., But I think the scientific process of proposing theories and seeing what stands up to rational discourse is worth the verbal abuse. I am not sure If I am up for the physical abuse that people with different and divergent ideas have had to endure in the past or are enduring presently (like atheists in muslim countries). Please, if you can, limit your abuse to verbal. Thank you!

It is fair to question my use of drugs. I have never been drunk, stoned, high, speed up or slowed down by drugs or used any illegal drugs at all. Not because I think they are bad, wrong to use, or illegal but because alcohol tastes like rotten fruit or grain to me, and drugs seem to take the spark of motivation and, or curiosity out of many people, in my opinion.

Concerning the amount of words or terms that awaretheory has created, (which is give or take 40,000 so far) it is just a small speck of the total amount of words that science, mathematics, and technology needs to understand and keep our world progressing. It would be much easier to use these words and equations in the proofs and arguments than having to explain every single aspect of ever single idea and term over and over again. Imagine chemistry without chemical terms. No names for the elements. No names for the molecules. No names for the grouping of elements and molecules. No names or terms for the various types of chemical reactions and properties. Try defining carbon without any scientific terms. Maybe not every word in awaretheory has a well defined meaning at this point in time, but to understand consciousness fully it is going to take many more words than I can even imagine, and I can imagine millions that are not in the awaretheory web site that have unique useful scientific meanings. Given a chance I can prove the important ideas that are in awaretheory others are still pretty speculative For instance, like information about nrgidentireplicas. I truly understand the difficulty of learning about new ideas when the brain is not fashioned in the right way to understand them. There are all sorts of ideas that I have beaten my head into the wall (figuratively) trying to understand and still don’t.