tacticalogic: 1. Reductionism eliminates information that cannot be conveyed.
betty: 2. But without the reductionist censorship, the information could be conveyed.
3. Why on earth would you say that, “In a perfect world we wouldn’t have the physical limitations we do?”
Spirited: These three issues interface one with the other. Men long for a perfect world, perfect body, perfect life, immortality. If possible they would rebuild the Garden, as ‘sinless’ utopians, socialists and communists tried to do and spilled the blood of 160,000,000-350,000,000 men, women and children in their devilish effort to eliminate evil.
Our world is not perfect due to the presence of evil: environmental (i.e., hurricanes, droughts, earthquakes), physical (disease, mortality), and human evils in their endless permutations.
In response to the question of evil, including his own, Buddha chose to deny ‘self,’ to shut himself down, to not see, hear or feel suffering. To not know what he really did know. To withdraw into inner stillness.
Buddha denied personal accountability and his way is ultimately selfish.
Methodological naturalism follows the way of Buddha in its’ denial of ‘free will’ (i.e., either it’s your fault or my genes made me do it) and negation of ‘self:’ “Reductionism eliminates information” (we don’t want to know because it makes us feel bad).
Reductionism eliminates some information because it cannot be verified and reproduced. The attribution of emotional motivation appears to the process looks like an effort to inflate your own ego by demeaning everyone else, because you imagine yourself posessed of superior spiritual qualities that make you able to see what no one else can.
Reductionism eliminates some information because it cannot be verified and reproduced. The attribution of emotional motivation to the process appears looks like an effort to inflate your own ego by demeaning everyone else, because you imagine yourself posessed of superior spiritual qualities that make you able to see what no one else can.