Science is Dead.
In the 1960s, the “God is dead” meme had fifteen minutes of fame. Today, moving into the 2020’s – and well into the onset of the Post-Automation Era of so-called smart everything, from bedknobs to broomsticks – it’s steely-eyed scientism’s turn to meet its Maker: us.
Science is dead.
Whether or not the death of science was a sad depression-induced suicide, remains yet to be determined.
The good news is that there is actually an observable, objective, empirical afterlife for science, but as ancient wisdoms have always taught, that resurrection only lies beyond ego death.
Nikola Tesla said, "The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, It will make more progress in one decade than in all its previous centuries of existence."
Today, more and more scientists who are excruciatingly intellectually honest with themselves acknowledge that we must engage with the messy, uncomfortable work at the intersection of science and non-duality @scienceandnonduality_
There is something more to this existence than what we can observe with our physical senses: up to and including 30 kazillion year-old extinguished light.
It is not breaking news to anyone with half-functioning emotional intelligence, that there are fundamental, empirical aspects of Objective Reality that are only accessible through internal subjective introspection.
E kala mai, sorry that our greatest telescopes and microscopes, particle accelerators, and kitchen-counter synchrotrons haven't picked up on that yet; but The Observer Effect is what it is what it is.
The Observer Effect. Neither you nor I have the slightest idea what it is, other than the most interesting and vexing question of contemporary physics.
Throughout history, the best and most curious scientists have always been captivated by the most vexing questions.
It was said by arguably one of the best scientists of all time that, "imagination is more important than knowledge." In 2020, at the precipice of #climatechange #extinctionrisk, it time to rekindle our Scientific Imagination.
It is well past the time to acknowledge that we are at a significant inflection point in the long arc of scientific inquiry.
Since the 2012 confirmation of the Higgs boson, the Standard Model of physics is either complete — or completely wrong.
Today, we scientists and astronomers have little more than zealous hand waving and flailing particle-obsessed conjecture to account for 96% dark energy / matter.
Perhaps we are nowhere near as akamai, or intelligent, as we like to believe ourselves.
What we CAN do is #JustBePono.
We can #DoTheRightThing from an integrated, ecologically & culturally interdependent perspective.
We can #MoveTheTMT from #MaunaKea to @tmtlapalma before the last Christmas of this decade.
Many scientists like me enjoy the ironic and provocative statement that science did not make us in its own image, we made science in our image. Going on to declare the death of science is more or less commensurate with the baseline hubris of Western Cartesian settler-colonial thinking in the first place. So, science has met its Maker: us.
Science is dead.
The most sublime poetic justice – maybe Hawaiian ʻōlelo speakers can tell me whether or not the word kānāwai applies here – ensures that science never did and never will require a God or a belief in God. Science only ever requires people.
Science is a 100% human idea, institution and yes, tribal, cultural practice.
So, science does have a Maker, science does have a God, and that Creator is us.
As long as kānaka (humans) exist, there is hope of resurrection, restoration, and a new afterlife of pono scientific exploration beyond the standard model of physics scientific grave.
See you on the other side.
