Philosophy over Science

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 archetypes 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 observer's experience is the only reality. 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 purposely created by "Enlightenment" thinkers for the express purpose of preventing us from thinking about the actual nature and causes of everything in the Cosmos. Why? To preserve traditional religion and authority.

So if not Science, what can we call our attempts to go beyond experience--to explain the Cosmos--what exists and what causes our experiences? Religion? Well, religions were often 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 intellectual 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 depending upon myths, anthropomorphic analogies, and contradictions? 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". 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 for integrating the facts of experience and understanding 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 field of study. Philosophy uses the scientific methods and mathematics plus all the other tools of theoretical cognition. 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 has ever been so abused. It 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”, 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 to grasp the truth and improve our lives. We live in an extremely anti-philosophical society. The churching and schooling of children and young adults destroys their curiosity and their ability to think philosophically. It is anti-philosophy that is progressively dumbing down Western society. This is why it is becoming ever more stupid and violent. Our minds are filled with false and inadequate ideas, which because they are false, cause us to abuse and destroy ourselves, our children, our societies, and our planet. Only by becoming philosophers can we challenge the old ideas we've inherited and and replace them with better ones.

Philosophy is what Science should be. Science (capital “S”) is a truncated, emasculated version of philosophy created to allow us 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. Dumbed-down citizens, unable to think philosophically, do not trusts their own minds, and cannot see beyond the lies. Science works as planned, to protect religious and political doctrines and regimes (and the elites who exploit them) from the threat of philosophy. The price we pay is enormous. We remain trapped in over-controlled slave states. Our minds our constricted, our lives distorted, our work unsatisfying. 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/why have humans come to exist here? We are now offered two false theories: Theism and Atomistic Atheism: 1. A mind-like spirit 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: Mere chance, working on subatomic particles flying through a void, produced this Cosmos in every detail, including all life on this planet. The first is an obvious anthropomorphism--humans created this God in their own image. It is a projection of the human mind and creative abilities onto the Cosmos itself. Even the abstract versions of this theory fail to explain the facts--the size of this Cosmos, the inauspicious location of the special humans, the obvious evolution of life on this planet that produced humans, the details of biology, etc. Worse, the Judaic spirit-God of the Bible is a evil monster that must be condemned by any ethical person. On the other hand, Atomistic Atheism also explains nothing. No thoughtful person can accept that the Cosmos came into being by mere chance, and is able to evolve into language-endowed human beings by mere 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 and quantum theory. If we instead look closely we see that the evolution of life is just a late step in a very long, complicated, multilevel evolutionary process that included the formation of subatomic particles, nuclei, atoms, molecules, biomolecules, cells, multicellular creatures, creatures with central nervous systems, and creatures with highly complex brains that supported language (humans). We humans are the Cosmos become self-conscious. One of the way in which the obvious is obscured is through the anti-ether assumptions of Einstein’s physics. If space is nothing at all, then no physical phenomena can be explained and all that’s left is magic. In actuality, the known facts of physics absolutely require that empty space is not empty at all but is a substance. The denial of the existence of the ether that pervades academia today is the result of the suppression of ether theory by Theists, Christians and Jews, from Bishop Berkeley to Albert Einstein. Space is a substance, it cannot be a void. Therefore, the question of existence can be narrowed to the one hypothesis that works. What is this Ether-substance? Why does it support electromagnetic waves and the formation of particles? Why does it strive to evolve into ever more complex forms? Why does it strive towards self-consciousness via the humans it has produced? If anything in reality deserves to be called "God" it is the Ether.

We must live up to our evolutionary potential. We must seek to expand and improve our knowledge and thereby our consciousness. We must dedicate ourselves to learning. We must all become philosophers. We must reject all old and inadequate ideas and institutions and seek to understand reality as it is, so that we may live in harmony with it and with each other. We will then be able to live together in peace and prosperity. We will be able to develop clean and powerful technologies that will allow us to preserve our Earth and to travel among the stars. We must turn life on this planet into a celebration of existence instead of a vale of tears, taxes, wars, and suffering. It is clear that this is the next evolutionary step--a philosophically-developed human civilization on Earth that is able to colonize non-living planets throughout the galaxy. We can hope that there are other linguistic beings 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. I expose Science as 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)
Etherism over Relativity – A draft for the follow-up to “Beyond Consciousness..”. It begins the task of formulating physical concepts for a new Ethereal Cosmology and contains the “Flowing Space” paper below.
Etherism, Atomism, and God -- 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 phenonmena. Etherism has a much greater explanatory power than the God theory and the four forces/particle theory.
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 can explain why Relativity’s equations work and how gravity works.
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.
Against Quantum Theory -- A brief proof that light does not consist of flying particles
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).
Beyond Relativity -- Powerpoint presentation given to Delaware Astronomical Society on 2/21/2006
Relativity and the Corruption of Natural Philosophy – Powerpoint presentation given at the Natural Philosophy Alliance in Storrs, Connecticut on 5/25/2009.

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.
Children and Childrearing -- We must grant children all the rights of any adult, in addition to meeting their need for protection, aid, and love.
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 Modern Parenting Dilemma -- We are pouring new wine into old bottles.
On Ted Kaczynski and the delusions of modern psychiatry
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?
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 any courses offered in any school.
The Evil Pentateuch -- Have you ever actually read the Old Testament or thought seriously about its ideas? This essay is a clear demonstration that 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 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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