Philosophy over Science
Cooperation over Coercion
Love over Hate

Henry H. Lindner, MD

What do you call the act of creating and criticizing theories of the causes of things? What do you call our efforts to understand ourselves and the Cosmos?  Science?  Wrong.  I came to a deeper understanding of the nature of Science through an in-depth study of our theories about the ultimate nature of physical reality. I realized that the archetype of modern Science, Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Theory, were nothing but models of the observer’s conscious experience—his sensations and measurements. They do not attempt to get beyond conscious experience to model or explain the Cosmos itself.  In Relativity and Quantum theory, the only reality is the observer's experience. All other sciences attempt to imitate theoretical physics by limiting themselves to the description and modeling of experience. I discovered that this truncated, limited version of philosophy called “Science” was created by enlightenment thinkers for the express purpose of preventing us from thinking about the actual nature and causes of everything in the Cosmos.

So what do we call our attempts to go beyond experience--to explain the Cosmos--what exists and what causes our experiences? Religion? Well, religions were serious attempts to explain everything, back when they were created. Unfortunately, they are primitive belief systems that could not evolve with the advance of knowledge; they are dogmatic fossils. What would we call a religion if it never became dogmatic, if it grew and changed with the advance of knowledge? What would we call a religion that didn't make obvious errors like using animalian or human analogies to explain the origin and nature of the Cosmos itself? What would we call a religion that integrated 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". 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 has ever been so abused.  It is slandered as mere unsupported belief, soft-headed mysticism, or a form of art. In our schools, it is reduced either to a canned history of “ideas”, to useless speculation about the meaning of words, or to a "dialogue" about morality. What our culture calls “philosophy” is worthless, whereas philosophy is actually the most powerful tool that our minds possess.

Philosophy is the full, uninhibited use of our intuition and our language-based intelligence to criticize and create theories of the causes of all Cosmic phenomena.   Philosophy is our only path to the truth; our only tool to integrate the facts of experience and to understand the Cosmos and ourselves. With philosophy, we can reach beyond our sensations and measurements and grasp the nature of existence and the causes of all phenomena--in every science. Philosophy uses scientific methods and mathematics plus all the other tools of theoretical cognition. Philosophy pays no false respect to ideas that are not consistent with the evidence and/or do not sufficiently explain the evidence. 

Science (capital “S”) is a truncated, emasculated version of philosophy created to allow mankind to pursue its curiosity about technical matters while preventing us from using our full intellectual abilities to grasp the nature and causes of things. Science works only to improve our knowledge of the concrete and technical. It prevents us from using the full power of our mental faculties to understand and solve deeper problems. Science was created to, and continues to protect religious and political doctrines and regimes (and the elites who exploit them) from the threat of philosophy.

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

1. 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. I expose Science as anti-philosophy.
2. 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)
3. Etherism over Relativity – A draft for the follow-up to “Beyond Consciousness..”.  It begins the task of formulating physical concepts for a new Cosmology and contains the “Flowing Space” paper below.
4. Flowing Space – The facts of physics require that space be a substance. It is therefore the ground of all being. A detailed presentation of a new theory of space and motion that fits the facts.  This simple model allows you to understand why Relativity’s equations work and how gravity works.
5. Physical Implications of Flowing Space - I do the best I can to work out the implications of this physical theory of space.  This is just a glimpse of the kinds of questions that will occupy the minds of future theoretical physicists.
6. Etherism over Atomism- The flying photon is the product of Einstein's subjectivistic method.  It cannot explain most aspects of light's behavior. Eliminate subjectivism and the photon theory of light and one can eliminate all the paradoxes and confusion of Quantum Theory.
7. Against Quantum Theory -- A brief proof that light does not consist of flying particles
8. 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 unintegrated 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).
9. Beyond Relativity -- Powerpoint presentation given to Delaware Astronomical Society on 2/21/06

On Human Life and Society

1. On the movie, The Matrix – and its relevance to these pages. We too live in a Matrix of false ideas and delusions.
2. Children and Childrearing -- We must grant children all the rights of any adult, in addition to meeting their need for protection, aid, and love.
3. Consensualism over Coercionism -- Two incompatible moralities--only one is fit for human beings.
4. The Problem with Capitalism -- It is not freedom, but just another form of enslavement of the masses.
5. The Modern Parenting Dilemma -- We are pouring new wine into old bottles.
6. On Ted Kaczynski and the delusions of modern psychiatry
7. 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?
8. So You Want to be a Philosopher? -- A how-to essay.  Hint: It has nothing to do with any degrees or any courses offered in any school.
9. The Pentateuch -- Have you ever actually read the Old Testament or thought seriously about its ideas?
10. The Ninth Crusade – An historical and moral analysis of the ongoing Ninth Crusade mounted by Europeans to control Palestine.

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 destroy the moral basis of our peaceful coexistence and put everyone at risk.  We must condemn the initiation and maintenance of violence everywhere at all times, including the covert forms of violence like slavery and occupation.  We must employ every means available to stop the perpetrator, including force if necessary.

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 adult forms of thought and behavior.

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