Philosophy over Science
Cooperation over Coercion
Love over Hate
Henry H. Lindner, MD
Like humans in all ages, we were raised to think that we live in a an enlightened society in which all leaders, institutions and experts are basically correct. The truth is that we are still living in the Middle Ages--our minds and societies are still dominated by ancient Judeo-Christian ideas and Greco-Roman errors. We live in a High-Tech Dark Age. We are slaves of an authoritarian system. Philosophy is suppressed: our foundational concepts in nearly every aspect of reality and human existence are wrong:
1. Our theoretical physics, and by extension all of Science, is based upon spiritualism, the belief that reality is only the observer’s conscious experiences. Science, Einstein’s Science, was created by Bishop Berkeley to protect religion from natural philosophy—to dumb us down. That is why Science merely describes and measures things and does not seek to know the cause. Because of Science, we have high technology coexisting with the most appalling ignorance of the nature the Cosmos and ourselves.
2. Without an understanding of the Cosmos, we cannot begin to understand how it could evolve and produce higher levels of complexity including ourselves. We therefore default to the Judeo-Christian God delusion. Everything that we cannot understand, we ascribe to God, Chance, or Magic. We give phenomena names, and believe that we therefore “know” them, when in fact we haven’t the slightest understanding of the cause.
3. Our view of human nature, and therefore of ourselves, is false and perverse--based upon the Old and New Testament concepts of authoritarianism and innate evil—the result being that we crush our children’s developing minds and wills and submit ourselves willingly to the ruling oligarchy.
4. We venerate Judeo-Christianity as a religion of love and peace, when in fact it the source of our authoritarianism, ignorance, hatred, fear, child abuse, exploitation, and warfare. One needs only to actually read its foundational text and look at what its devotees have done and are doing to “the other” to understand this fact.
5. Because our minds are infected with the Judeo-Christian and authoritarian memes, we destroy our children, coercing and schooling them, institutionalizing them for 12 years and destroying their natural ability to think and to learn. We are slaves and we turn our children into slaves.
6. We are told that we are a free people in a democratic society, when in fact we are mortgage, tax, and corporate slaves in a capitalist plutocracy—a society run by privileged elites that control and benefit from the money-creation scam (fractional reserve banking), the government-sponsored corporations, the media, the legal system, the pharmaceutical medical system, and the military-security-industrial complex.
7. Our “conventional medicine” is pharmaceutical medicine, based upon the superficial “diagnosis and drug” model promoted by the pharmaceutical corporations, with the result that doctors know very little about human physiology or mental function, or about how to actually find and fix the causes of our disorders.
8. Our society is becoming increasingly dysfunctional, deformed, stupid, and violent. It is self-destructing and change is coming. Whether that change will bring improvement or disaster is up to us. Our only hope is to recover and to use our philosophical abilities.
We are not spirits in a material world. That delusion has been used to control us for thousands of years. We are products of the self-evolution of the Cosmos. We are animals with language-enhanced consciousness; primates that can talk; the Cosmos become self-conscious. Our minds are the products of our linguistic formulas—our ideas. Therefore we must be very careful to make sure that our ideas conform to the reality of the Cosmos and of our own nature. In this we are failing miserably. Our cultures, our minds, are filled with old ideas that are false or at best inadequate. This delusory mental Matrix of false concepts and interpretations causes tremendous confusion. It hinders our development and diminishes our lives and our societies. We try to fix the resultant problems, but because our theories of the causes are false, our solutions just makes things worse. Why are we in this degraded state? It is quite simple: our most powerful and most precious mental capability—philosophy—is taken from us at a young age. Religious indoctrination and government schooling distort and cripple our mental development. They fool us into thinking that learning and being a good person requires memorizing what “experts” say and obeying authorities. These twin evils—religion and authoritarian government—conspire continuously to suppress philosophy and support stupid Science—which merely counts and measures things and does not attempt to understand the nature or causes of Cosmic phenomena. Our academic specialists are products of this brain-washing system. Most simply cannot think clearly or deeply about their subject or about any other aspects of existence. They just keep reprocessing old ideas.
What is philosophy? Well, how can we identify and solve problems? How can we identify and replace false beliefs that we’ve inherited from mankind’s infancy? How do we create and criticize theories about the nature and causes of things? What do we call our collective effort to understand ourselves and the Cosmos? What do we call our struggle to make certain that our ideas conform to Cosmic reality? None of these mental acts are described by the word “Science”. What we call “Science” is the root of the problem! Look at the archetypes of modern Science, Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Theory. On close inspection, it is obvious that they are nothing but models of the observer’s conscious experience—his sensations and measurements. They are anthropocentric delusional systems, placing the observer and his consciousness at the basis of reality. The observer's experience is the only reality. These models do not attempt to get beyond conscious experience to model or explain the Cosmos itself. They only attempt to get the predictions right—just as the Ptolemaic Cosmology did. Now all other sciences are attempting to imitate Bishop Berkeley’s physics by limiting themselves to the description and modeling of experience, the result being that they too ignore the underlying reality and causes of things. Our “Modern Science” is sophisticated ignorance parading as knowledge.
We are taught that the only other path to knowledge outside of Science is religion. Well, religions may have been serious attempts to explain everything, back when they were created. Unfortunately, their creators were ignorant, they knew nothing about the Cosmos or human nature. Their speculations and stories arose from their ignorance and often served their own purposes. Religions are just old, primitive belief systems that did not, and cannot evolve with the advance of knowledge. They are intellectual fossils. They do differ from Science in that they attempt to provide answers to the big questions—What is the Cosmos? What is it made of? Why are we here? What should we do? And in a culture dominated by Science we need such answers. However religion provides wrong answers. We must deal with these big questions rationally. We need a “religion” that is not dogmatic, that grows and changes with the advance of knowledge. We need a “religion” that is logical and doesn’t make obvious errors like depending upon myths and anthropomorphic analogies. We need a “religion” that integrates all the facts and all our best theories of causes into a unified model of the Cosmos, human nature, and human life.
There is a name for such an open-ended, natural “religion”: from the time of its invention by the Ionian Greeks in the 7th century BC, it has been called "philosophy". Philosophy is the most powerful use of our special human linguistic capacity. It is the full, uninhibited use of our intuition and our language-based intelligence to criticize and create theories of the nature and causes of all Cosmic phenomena. It is the act of making our word-formulas correspond to Cosmic reality. It is our only path to the truth; our only tool for integrating the facts of experience and for understanding the Cosmos and ourselves. With philosophy, we reach beyond our sensations and measurements to grasp the nature of existence and the causes of all phenomena--in every field of study. Philosophy uses scientific methods and mathematics plus all the other tools of theoretical cognition. It is our only tool for analyzing competing ideas and theories to decide which best conforms to reality. Philosophy pays no respect to ideas that are not consistent with the evidence and/or do not sufficiently explain the evidence.
You would think that mankind would revel in this open-ended, ever improving, non-sectarian “religion”, but such has not been the case. In fact, philosophy has always been suppressed, reviled, belittled, and ignored. No religion, cult, or ideology has ever been so abused. Philosophy is slandered as mere unsupported belief, soft-headed mysticism, or a form of art. In our universities, it is reduced either to a canned history of “ideas”, useless speculation about the meaning of words, or a "dialogue" about morality. What our culture calls “philosophy” is a pale shadow of the real thing. Philosophy is what we think Science should be, it is what we are taught to think that Science is. Science is a truncated, emasculated version of philosophy created by Christian Enlightenment thinkers to allow humans to pursue our curiosity about technical matters while leaving all metaphysical matters to religion. Science was created by religious men to save Judeo-Christianity and the authoritarian societies built upon it from the threat of philosophy. The price we have paid for replacing philosophy with Science is enormous. The Renaissance has failed. We are trapped in a High-Tech Dark Age. Our minds our constricted, our lives distorted, our art degraded, and our work unsatisfying. We live in over-controlled slave states. We accept all this as normal and pass on our slave-mentality to our children, ruining them too. It is time for the long-overdue awakening of human consciousness. It is time for us to fulfill our Cosmic destiny, to become fully human.
Consider the most fundamental question of all: What is the nature of the Cosmos and how have humans come
to exist here? We are now offered two
false alternatives: Theism or Atomistic Atheism. Either:
1. A mind-like all-powerful spirit-being decided one day to create the Cosmos just as it is in every detail, including all the life on this planet, and created humans "in his image" to obey and worship him, or
2. Chance caused a large number of self-existing subatomic particles flying through a void to clump together in ways so as to produce this Cosmos in every detail, including all life on this planet and us language-using human beings.
The theistic theory is an obvious anthropomorphism--humans
created this God in their own image. It is a non-theory. It is Magic. We make
things, so we think that someone made the Cosmos too. Even the abstract
versions of this theory fail to explain the facts--the vast size of this Cosmos
compared to the isolation of the special humans, the obvious evolutionary
process that produced us, the known facts of biology, etc. Worse, the God that
most people think of, the Judaic spirit-God of
the Bible, is a evil monster that deserves condemnation by any ethical
person. On the other hand, Atomistic Atheism also explains nothing. It has obviously just replaced God with Chance. It is the false and inadequate
alternative to Theism that, by being nonsensical, protects and perpetuates Theism!
No thoughtful person can accept the idea that the Cosmos exists by chance, or
that all this complexity has evolved from a bunch of little flying balls by
chance. None of what we see can possibly be the product of chance associations
of subatomic
particles flying through a void. On this the creationists are right:
neither the Cosmos or its evolution are the result of mere chance. There is a
creative process at work, there is a meaningful process involved. If we look
closely we see that the evolution of life is actually just a late step in a very
long, complicated, multilevel evolutionary process that begins in the
substance we call “space”, and includes the formation of all more
complex entities: subatomic particles, nuclei, atoms, molecules,
biomolecules, cells, multicellular creatures, creatures with central
nervous systems, and creatures with highly complex brains that supported
language (humans). The evolution of human beings, so controversial today, is
just one single layer in a vast, multi-layered evolutionary process.
“Evolution” just describes what happened. We require a working, scientifically and
philosophically valid theory of what exists and evolves, and why.
Until we
replace Science with philosophy, we will be stuck with religious and inadequate
explanations of the most fundamental aspects of our existence.
We humans are the Cosmos become self-conscious, and there are probably many other linguistic or otherwise intelligent species in this Cosmos. The Cosmos obviously “strives” to produce higher and higher levels of complexity, including self-awareness and philosophical understanding. What is the Cosmos? What is it made of? The known facts of physics absolutely require that “empty” space is a substance. The ether exists. This idea was made taboo by Bishop Berkeley and by the young Einstein. Science denies the reality of space precisely because space itself is the primary constituent of this Cosmos—the “stuff” from which all other phenomena have evolved. A working theory of space and its role in all phenomena will finally allow us to explain many of the mysteries now attributed to God. The religiously-determined refusal to think of space as a substance (ether) pervades academia today. Ether theory is suppressed and ridiculed by Theists and by non-theists who do not grasp that their minds are infected with religious viruses (memes) and that Science is the produce of those memes. We need a new physics based upon a new foundation. Some physicists are beginning to realize this; the physicality of space is becoming more difficult to deny. Their observer-based physics is producing ever greater absurdities (time travel, parallel universes, observer-created reality, etc.). We must ask: What is this Cosmic substance from which all complex phenomena arise? How does it support electromagnetic waves and the formation of particles? How does evolve into ever more complex forms? How does it produce self-consciousness via creatures like us? And given all that we can learn about reality, how should we live?
We human beings must live up to our evolutionary potential. We must seek to expand and improve our knowledge and our consciousness. We must dedicate ourselves to learning—not schooling. We must stop destroying the natural learning process in our children so that we create healthier-minded generations. We must become philosophers—able to identify and reject the old inadequate ideas that infect our minds. We must abolish our authoritarian societies and institutions. We must seek to understand reality as it is so that we may live in harmony with the Cosmos, with ourselves, and with each other. Only then will we begin to obtain peace and prosperity. Only then will we nurture our children’s learning and creativity. We will then be able to develop clean and powerful technologies that will allow us to preserve our Earth and to travel among the stars. We will turn life on this planet into a celebration of existence instead of a vale of tears, coercion, taxes, wars, and suffering. We can hope on day to find other species on other planets in the Cosmos that have already attained this level of evolution. What comes after that? Who knows!
Philosophy
is the natural religion of all mankind—our only hope for a peaceful and
prosperous future together on Earth and among the stars.
On Philosophy, Science, and the Cosmos
- Philosophy over Science - An exposé of the origins and intellectual inadequacy of our "Science" which accepts contradictions in its ideas and doesn't form coherent theories of the causes of things. Science is anti-philosophy.
- Beyond Consciousness to Cosmos: Beyond Relativity and Quantum Theory to Cosmic Theory - An exposé of the philosophical errors made by Einstein, and an argument for going beyond Relativity to a physical theory of the Cosmos. (PDF document)
- Beyond Relativity to Flowing Space – The facts of physics require that space be a substance. It is the ground of all being. A detailed presentation of a new theory of space and motion that fits the facts. This simple model explains why Relativity’s equations work.
- Etherism, Atomism, and the God Myth -- Deals with the philosophical question of the nature of reality: whether the Cosmos is the product of four forces and four particles acting in a void as is currently taught in universities, or the product of motions in and of the substance that fills all "empty space" and which produces all fundamental physical phenomena. Etherism has a much greater explanatory power than the God theory and the atomistic theory.
- Hierarchical Cosmism -- My first writing project that started me on my philosophical journey. The fact that I needed to do this indicates how fragmented and anti-theoretical Science is. I simply started to describe how Cosmic processes have been and continue to be organized in new ways, creating new levels of complexity. I realized that it's a powerful tool for organizing our understanding--it's an unfinished outline of all current and potential knowledge! The major levels of Cosmic evolution are: Astrophysicochemical, Biological, Neuropsychological (animals) Linguomythic (ancient human), and Consciophilosophical (our potential).
- Relativity and the Corruption of Natural Philosophy – PowerPoint presentation given at the Natural Philosophy Alliance in Storrs, Connecticut on 5/25/2009.
- Beyond Relativity and Quantum Mechanics: Space Physics – Powerpoint presentation given at the SPIE conference “The Nature of Light: What are Photons”, August 2011
- A QED-Compatible Wave-Theory of Light, Electrons, and their Interactions – Powerpoint presentation given at the SPIE conference, August 2011.
On
Human Life and Society
- On the Movie, The Matrix – and its relevance to these pages. We too live in a Matrix of false ideas and delusions that distort our thinking, our lives, and our societies and which effectively enslaves us all.
- The Evil Pentateuch -- Have you ever actually read the Old Testament or thought seriously about its ideas? This essay demonstrates that the ideas upon which Judaism, and therefore Christianity and Islam, are based are incorrigibly evil, the opposite of the values we profess to hold.
- The Ninth Crusade – An historical and moral analysis of the ongoing Zionist Ninth Crusade mounted by European/American Jews and Christians to control Palestine, the Middle East, and the World. Their delusional religion drives them to do it.
- Children and Childrearing -- We must grant children all the rights of any adult, in addition to meeting their need for protection, aid, and love. We must stop institutionalizing and infantilizing them.
- On Schooling (coerced learning) vs. Unschooling (self-motivated learning) -- we must separate school and state and integrate children into our society. The Thirteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution outlaws involuntary servitude, except for crimes committed. Truancy law forces every child into school where he is punished if he does not follow orders. What crimes have children committed?
- The Modern Parenting Dilemma -- We are pouring new wine into old bottles.
- Consensualism over Coercionism -- Two incompatible moralities--only one is fit for human beings.
- The Problem with Capitalism -- It is not freedom, but just another form of enslavement of the masses based upon fractional reserve banking and many other governmental distortions of natural human cooperation and fairness.
- The Debt/Tax Slave System and its Alternative – Yes, we are slaves
- On Ted Kaczynski and the delusions of modern psychiatry – our psychiatry merely diagnoses and drugs people, as the pharmaceutical model dictates. A valid psychiatry would find the causes of our mental ills in childhood trauma, abuse, and control.
- Against Spiritualism, Genetic Determinism, and Racism -- a simple theory of the mind and its disorders
- So You Want to be a Philosopher? -- A how-to essay. Hint: It has nothing to do with any degrees or courses offered in any school. The purpose of schooling is to prevent you from being a philosopher or creator.
Consider
That:
We are all one species living on one
planet. If we allow anyone person or group to commit violence against any
other person or group, we are destroying the moral basis of our peaceful
coexistence and we put everyone at risk. We must condemn the initiation and
maintenance of violence everywhere at all times, including the covert forms of
violence like occupation, schooling, debt slavery, and taxation. We must employ
every means available to stop perpetrators of violence and coercion.
Human children are not born evil, they're born immature; just like puppies, kittens, and all other animals. We should satisfy their needs and gently guide their self-motivated development; not force them into our perverted adult forms of thought and behavior.