Heisenberg argued that the process of being observed changed the behavior of whatever was being observed. He never knew how Reality Programs would prove this so right. People behave differently when they know the camera is turned on. They imitate plots from their favorite movie or tv program and are susceptible to suggestion from the director or producer of the series.
This does not mean that there is no certainty. Heisenberg argued that by comparing multiple observations from different vantage points, a more reliable determination of the event could be attained. These days, instead of spontaneous dance in response to a rock performance, people raise their cell phones and post the results on You Tube. Consensus thereby determines the highlights of any experience and confirms that it actually happened.
Absolute certainty, Heisenberg knew, was impossible for science to determine. Science could only, through a interconnection of research, manage an approximation of truth. Melting icecaps should raise sea levels and drown parts of china and New York, but the remedy is largely speculative and hypothetical approximations. Consensus can even deny scientific truth if people become too frightened of change.
Here's a different take. When we see the connectedness of all things, then we're no longer concerned with divinity, abundance and salvation. Those things are important only to a non-connected ego.
I grew up in Christian fundamentalism, went to hell, came back, became a Presbyterian then a Buddhist Presbyterian, and now I'm a profane Presbyterian Zen Taoist -- not that I'm into labels or anything. Here's what I've learned so far: The more you know, the more you know you don't know.
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The Principle of Uncertainty
Heisenberg argued that the process of being observed changed the behavior of whatever was being observed. He never knew how Reality Programs would prove this so right. People behave differently when they know the camera is turned on. They imitate plots from their favorite movie or tv program and are susceptible to suggestion from the director or producer of the series.
This does not mean that there is no certainty. Heisenberg argued that by comparing multiple observations from different vantage points, a more reliable determination of the event could be attained. These days, instead of spontaneous dance in response to a rock performance, people raise their cell phones and post the results on You Tube. Consensus thereby determines the highlights of any experience and confirms that it actually happened.
Absolute certainty, Heisenberg knew, was impossible for science to determine. Science could only, through a interconnection of research, manage an approximation of truth. Melting icecaps should raise sea levels and drown parts of china and New York, but the remedy is largely speculative and hypothetical approximations. Consensus can even deny scientific truth if people become too frightened of change.
[Disposable Prose November 4, 2009]
Dr. Mike
Here's a different take. When we see the connectedness of all things, then we're no longer concerned with divinity, abundance and salvation. Those things are important only to a non-connected ego.
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