I often miss the point.
Science is the objectification of the world--sort of. It puts the world into words, which represent concepts that can be defined and quantified and related to other things. Observation, then hypothesis (testable explanation), then experiments (fun part), then hypothesis, then experiment, and hopefully to theory--and finally (with a great deal of ingenuity) to Law. The art of discovery is highly reliant upon our memory and error-checking--that is, troubleshooting how we assimilate new knowledge with old. It's difficult in life to use these methods in our personal lives (or at least in my case), because there is that sometimes dreadful thing called emotion and irrationality. Moreover, we're dynamic and spontaneous, and we're not always internally and externally consistent with logic, so science is really a guiding force--or perhaps it should be in more people's lives.
I've heard or read several times in the past week or so that we're illogical/irrational creatures. This is only party true. Humans are very rational, and like I just said, humans are simply not completely consistent in their rationality. Mistakes occur, biases are developed--often to our ignorance--and we do crazy things. In the minority of humans (I'm guessing/hoping it's a minority), there are even faultier reasoning mechanisms which operate only partly on rationality; this falls under the category of existing medical conditions. Modern pharmaceuticals has a partial resolve for many of these disorders.
But on with what I started with. I often miss the point. Very frequently (usually when I've not had regular sleep), I become irrational and frustrated with the world around me--and especially the political world (what other world is there?). Kosovo, Russia, Iran, the US, and everyone else--there are social maladies in each and every country. Even worse is how the leaders of each malady-stricken place interact with foreign leaders: terribly. Part of the problem is clearly the inheritance of the previous generation. Horrid! And each new generation has to work to fix the last problem created along with a changing social climate within each nation-state. It's an uphill battle: but then again, most things are in the case of humans...
Thermodynamics identifies certain properties regarding order and chaos: this is explained in the second law of thermodynamics. When order increases, the disorder of the universe must decrease. Moreover, the more ordered a thing becomes, it gets farther and farther away from stability--unless the temperature has decreased significantly. This picture I'm describing is very superficial, but it will suffice for my purposes here (I hope). In the political scene, there has been a great deal of order produced around the globe, but at the same time, because there hasn't been a prolific and consistently rational generation, there is always a profound amount of chaos that results from the order created. This generally holds true: a brief consideration of the relationship between first world nations and third world nations make his point very well....
Unknown " Mr. Handsome" Serene
- 17 years, 6 days ago
