@4d4m Said
The Scientific Mind is based on a few simple rules and a philosophy. The rules are the rules of logic. An example of the most simplistic logic rules.
with the statement if A then B
!) the statement If B then A is false
2) the statement if not A then not B is false
3) the statement if not B then not A is true
The philosophy behind the Scientific Mind is such that the researcher considers oneself to be an explorer or seeker of the truth. As such one doesn't really know with 100% certainty they are correct. Scientific terms arise from this philosophy.
One doesn't invent mathematical equations, one
discovers them.
There is no fact in science, what if our whole universe turns out to be a computer simulated matrix? Therefore, we don't have facts. we have
hypotheses that are proposed solutions to observed phenomena and we have
theories that are accepted solutions to observed phenomena. In this sense theories are as workable as facts, unless new observable phenomena changes or alters our understanding.
Thanks for your interest. I think I'm beginning to see why the "scientific revolution" arose in the West, irrespective of one or two discoveries and applications arising in China and India (for instance)
Personally I am not strong on logic, struggling at the first syllogism. Probably why my ears pick up at the mention of
intuition, and perhaps why many of my posts have been dismissed as mumbo jumbo!
However, I do have an interest in such things.
For anyone interested, from a book (I think possibly on Jung and Tibetan Buddhism but I'm not sure)
The basis of European science is logos intellection, formalized by Aristotle as following three laws: the law of identity, the law of contradiction and the law of the excluded middle. Logic in the Buddhist tradition, by contrast, is based in lemma (meaning to understand as a whole not with language, but with intuition). Lemma-based science born in the Buddhist tradition shows that rational perception is possible even without the three laws of logos.
Removing the law of identity leads to “nothing remains the same”. Removing the law of contradiction leads to the understanding that ‘“ A is B” and ‘A is not B’ are mutually compatible’”. Removing the law of the excluded middle leads to “all things cannot be divided”, and the understanding that “all things are connected (inseparable)”. All things are interrelated in this lemma way. In Buddhism, this phase of existence revealed when the three laws of logos are removed is called “dependent origination” (pratîtyasamutpâ da).
For Buddhism - as for all "religion" - salvation/enlightenment is the bottom line, rather than technological advancement. There is much interest in all this in today's Faith Traditions, even a "meeting" of so called "eastern" and "western" ways.
Two little quotes to finish, which my intuition tells me are "true", even life giving...
"The Tao can be shared but not divided"
...and from William Blake:- "We murder to dissect"