With Newton, the idea of the Universe as a machine with consistent physical forces driving it all along meant that observation and consciousness played no part. It became the single most powerful notion for the 20th Century.
It means though that for Quantum Physics, Genetics, chemistry, economics, sociology, science and research generally, a mechanistic physical world view still holds as the only truth.
Recently there was a documentary on Chaos theory, in which the Mandelbrot set was offered as a supreme example of the hidden but orderly physical forces operating in chaos.
It seems that with only 2 or 3 mathematical mutating rules, most of the cosmos can be explained. But explained mechanistically, with no regard to free will, God, consciousness, or anything outside the physical realm.
However Quantum Physics, even in it’s purely experimental form, shows repeatedly that consciousness is an integral part of what happens inside atoms. Again....Consciousness moves things!
Yet the scientists involved won’t recognise this amazing aspect. They even have a saying.. ”Shut up and calculate”. Their maths are part of the deterministic approach of science that must prove the existence of certain physical qualities, and will ignore the mystery because science doesn’t concern itself with “Philosophy”.
This idea comes from a time about 100 years ago when science was changing, and at a conference in Copenhagen scientists had to decide what they did for as living. What made them scientists.
They decided that science should only focus on what can be physically determined. Everything else should not be in the province of science because all they would have, as in the past, is argument, speculation, and philosophy and no fixed concrete answer.
Strangely though, this scientific determinism has been turned upside down, so that all things not capable of being scientifically determined are derided as being….get this…”Not scientific”!
Quantum Physics is still hamstrung with this thinking and only the very bravest of scientists, will talk about what actually goes on in the lab, In All Quantum verifying experiments ….IN ALL OF THEM, consciousness and observation are a unavoidable facts of the quantum physics. What you are thinking about, has a direct impact on the experiment.
Why hasn’t this been a big bang moment hailed by science? It certainly has by everyone else, and science has been ignoring it all the way. Newton has a lot to answer for.
Paul
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