JD!JackDaydream wrote: ↑September 23rd, 2021, 5:47 am @3017Metaphysican
Hello Meta,
I have been thinking about what you wrote on science and metaphysics and I believe that it is complex as the relationship between the two is interconnected. I know that as a young child was so puzzling because I had so little scientific knowledge. I believe that a 'missing link' is religious thinking and, for many that has been replaced by science. I was taught the account of creation in the Bible by my parents and I can remember being so confused when I first learned the theory of evolution. Some of my education was at a Catholic school and it did seem that some of
the teachers were trying to reconcile religious and scientific thinking.
I believe that a lot of the question of how we think about 'reality' is dependent on our entire worldview. It is so much about juggling what appears to be subjective, objective and inter subjective aspects of knowledge. There is the world of immediate experience and narratives told amongst social groups as well as that contained within the news, as well as books and the internet.
I believe that metaphysics is at the centre of all thinking even if people do not acknowledge it. The physicists come from basic assumptions, but, also, all psychological models and ones within the social sciences begin from premises about the nature of reality. There are viewpoints which range from idealism and naturalism, but they are all based on metaphysics, and there are likely to be such varying perspectives according to historical and cultural contexts. There is a difference in Western and Eastern metaphysical assumptions, and probably subtle shades in between. Our basic empirical and theoretical background inform our starting point, our searches and research, and interpretations of what we find may challenge our thoughts about reality. It appears to me to be an interactive relationship between reality 'out there' and the construction and descriptive accounts.
Yes. Similarly, I feel like since the phenomenon of life is both physical and non-physical, and being biologically self-aware creatures who naturally love and wonder, we are all metaphysicians (to some degree) and don't even know it!
So much for my supposition