The Anthropic Principle

Discussion in 'General Philosophy' started by Magical Realist, Feb 15, 2013.

  1. wellwisher Banned Banned

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    This observation is connected to projection. Projection is where what is inside the unconscious mind, projects outward like a movie within the imagination, to overlay observation, causing us to define the outer world in the light of what is inside. The result is we loop back to ourselves as we define the universe.

    For example, the gods of mythology, within the night sky of the ancients, was a projection that would overlay their observation. They would collect good data and could make predictions, but within the context of the mythological projection (theory). This theory could make predictions so it was assumed the theory was proven by this.

    A modern example of projection was connected to the Voyager space craft, when it explored the moons of Jupiter. The old science projection, which was pitched and taught as science gospel, did not anticipate all the geological activity seen on these moons. Scientists would still be on the old projection trip, if Voyager had not send back a reality check. Before voyager, if you has said active moons, you would have been labeled by the consensus as being a crank. Their can only be one OZ at a time.

    When the human mind reaches the unknown (near the perimeter or outside the box), unconscious projection helps fill in the blanks. Since the projection comes from the human mind, the projection will contain components of life and human consciousness. The temporal projections often tells us something of the collective state of mind, and makes it seem the universe is waiting for this generation.

    I approach this natural human brain phenomena using reverse engineering. Based on social projections, one should be able to reverse engineer the make-up of the collective projector, and thereby infer how the human psyche is organized. It can also tell us about which parts of the firmware are being developed and/or are most active.

    Theoretically, since we project into the unknown, if we had a good map of the human psyche, we should be able to infer the best available projections and thereby advance anthropic theory.

    In terms of how this works, we have two sides of the brain. The left side is the main tool of science, since it is rational and differential and allows us to collect detailed data and observations. The right side is more integral and creative. Since we can only be conscious of one side of the brain at a time and since the left brain is used more often, the right brain is more unconscious. Although the right brain is more unconscious, it is nevertheless needed for its integral capacity; integrate data into theory. Because this process is semi-conscious, due ot left brain being more stressed, there is more unconscious overlap via the projection factors.
     
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  3. Grumpy Curmudgeon of Lucidity Valued Senior Member

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    wellwisher

    First, there is no gospel in science and there never has been. Don't confuse the "memorization" of simple science facts in grade school for being how science is taught or practiced by professional scientists.
    Second, no planetary scientist would ever make claims that vulcanism is impossible except on Earth. We just had yet to find any elsewhere(thus we sent probes to find out, among other things). We didn't know whether other bodies in our Solar System had vulcanism, nobody claimed it was impossible and scientists were DELIGHTED to find it, it is exactly these kinds of new information that justified the money they cost to launch in the first place.

    Scientific knowledge is not "gospel", it wasn't handed down from on high, it was built, brick by brick, from the ground up, by scientific inquiries and will always be provisional(ie subject to falsification or change given new evidence or understanding). The vulcanism on Jupiter's moons was unexpected, but it was not a failure or flaw of science, it was a vindication of the scientific method for gaining new knowledge(ie if you don't know, go look and be prepared to accept what you find). Clinging to old "knowledge" despite new information(ie gospel)is the bailiwick of religious belief, belief of this sort is not applicable in science. Such beliefs have been the downfall of many who claim to be scientists, much of scientific instruction is concerned with avoiding such intellectual traps.

    Grumpy

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