Why science can never be the thing it is meant to be
According
to our current bias, which we believe to be objective, science is the search
for knowledge and its application with the aim to acquire understanding of the
natural world by following a methodology based on evidence.
In the
light of the above definition scientific methodology should include the following
properties:
·
Objective
observation backed by measurement and data
·
Evidence
·
Experimenting
with the purpose to test the hypothesizes
·
Repetition
·
Analysis
and assessment
Now as you
can see, all the activities that have to imply a scientific methodology are
based on human perception, even if this perception is backed with some kind of “objective
data” from devices or apparatus of measurement, because these same devices and
apparatus were invented exactly according to our theories, we derived from our so-called
“objective observations”. So, to find the real truth about science we have to
delve deeper into the truth of human perception. We all can already agree that
our entire world is shaped by our five senses with the help of our mental
faculties, but we can also easily say that mental derivatives that are not backed
by the five senses seem to be ignored and labeled as not scientific or as
fantasies. Having mentioned that, I would like to make a brief investigation
all together upon the qualities and limits of our perceptions. Let us think of
a blind man who has no means of sight, all his dimensional perception would be
limited to the touch point of objects and because of this his entire theory
about the world would be entirely different from the one of a man whose whole
equipment of senses is intact. This example would have to be sufficient to give an
insight that no perception could be objective or otherwise said unbiased, even
if we speak of a group perception or so. If you dare to acquire more info about
perceptions please read the book “Tertium
Organum”, P.D.Ouspensky. This conclusion makes us think that science is
just a result of a human consensus and thus in this context all the other attributes
of science loose its meaning.