More and more problems (law?)

[Philosophy Explorer]

It seems in science that the more problems that are solved, the more problems that are created. Does this strike you that way, to the point that it may be regarded as a law? Do you foresee where science will reach its limitations of knowledge or will it just keep going on?

I turn the floor over to you.

PhilX

[Misty]

It seems in science that the more problems that are solved, the more problems that are created. Does this strike you that way, to the point that it may be regarded as a law? Do you foresee where science will reach its limitations of knowledge or will it just keep going on?

I turn the floor over to you.

PhilX

Like everything else in the universe, science is no exception, it is and always will be circular, which is never ending.

[Philosophy Explorer]

It seems in science that the more problems that are solved, the more problems that are created. Does this strike you that way, to the point that it may be regarded as a law? Do you foresee where science will reach its limitations of knowledge or will it just keep going on?

I turn the floor over to you.

PhilX

Like everything else in the universe, science is no exception, it is and always will be circular, which is never ending.

What do you mean by circular?

PhilX

[Misty]

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Like everything else in the universe, science is no exception, it is and always will be circular, which is never ending.

What do you mean by circular?

PhilX

Circular is like a little kid asking why, why, why, why.................................

[A Poster He or I]

One of the many reasons I have such respect for scientific knowledge is BECAUSE its answers always create so many new questions. Such a flowering of questions is a good indicator that something is true. If a fact is true, it should be able to sit alongside the rest of Reality and interconnect with it, generating all kinds of questions about all its interrelations with the rest of Reality.

By contrast, false knowledge begins to show its limitations when you try to situate it with the rest of what we know, and the flow of questions soon comes to a stop. Even worse than false knowledge is dogmatic truth (as opposed to empirical truth). Dogma closes the door on questions so that the "Truth" can be protected from what it cannot explain (cannot integrate with).

The day that science thinks it knows everything is a day we should all fear. It will be the day when science ceases to seek for truth and instead protects its truths like dogma.

[Atreyu]

It seems in science that the more problems that are solved, the more problems that are created. Does this strike you that way, to the point that it may be regarded as a law? Do you foresee where science will reach its limitations of knowledge or will it just keep going on?

I turn the floor over to you.

PhilX

Yes, I regard it as a law because of the limitations of man's psychic apparatus, which is the limitations of science. Science has already reached its limitations which is why we have no adequate models of psychology or cosmology. 'Dark matter' is an example of science coming up against its own limitations, its own boundaries. Science is now having to finally come face to face with its own limitations, even though it doesn't want to.

-- Updated July 12th, 2014, 4:22 pm to add the following --

One of the many reasons I have such respect for scientific knowledge is BECAUSE its answers always create so many new questions. Such a flowering of questions is a good indicator that something is true. If a fact is true, it should be able to sit alongside the rest of Reality and interconnect with it, generating all kinds of questions about all its interrelations with the rest of Reality.

By contrast, false knowledge begins to show its limitations when you try to situate it with the rest of what we know, and the flow of questions soon comes to a stop. Even worse than false knowledge is dogmatic truth (as opposed to empirical truth). Dogma closes the door on questions so that the "Truth" can be protected from what it cannot explain (cannot integrate with).

The day that science thinks it knows everything is a day we should all fear. It will be the day when science ceases to seek for truth and instead protects its truths like dogma.

Such a 'flowering of questions' shows that something is missing, mainly fundamental knowledge of how the Universe really works. And I agree with everything you've said about 'dogma' and science. Unfortunately, IMO science is already protecting its 'truths' like dogma.

[Reactor]

It seems in science that the more problems that are solved, the more problems that are created. Does this strike you that way, to the point that it may be regarded as a law? Do you foresee where science will reach its limitations of knowledge or will it just keep going on?

I turn the floor over to you.

PhilX

It is not that more problems are created as we learn, but that with each layer of knowledge we achieve, we have grown. We thus gain new perspective that allows us to pose yet deeper questions to be answered. There may be an end to it, but I, for one, do not expect it to occur in this world (material plane).

[Bohm2]

But we do seem to be "progressing" toward some unification: