Philosophy over Science

Philosophy over Science
Cooperation over Coercion
Love over Hate

Henry H. Lindner, MD

Human beings are animals with language-enhanced consciousness. Therefore our understanding and our behavior are based upon our ideas. We must be careful to make sure that our ideas conform to the Cosmos and to our own nature. In this we have failed miserably. Our minds are filled with old ideas that are false or inadequate. We live in a mental Matrix of false concepts and interpretations, and these cause confusion, hinder our development, and diminish our lives and our society. When our ideas about the human nature and society are false, for instance, then every attempt we make to improve a given situation will just make it worse.

Like humans in all ages, we too have been raised to think that we live in a nearly perfect, 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 still dominated ancient Judeo-Christian ideas. The Judeo-Christian complex is in fact a mental virus, sabotaging our minds and our lives. The result is ignorance and authoritarianism. We have high technology, but our foundational concepts about the most important aspects of life 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 experiences. Because Science only describes and measures things, but we have not yet begun to understand the physical Cosmos or ourselves.

2. Without a understanding of the physical Cosmos, we cannot understand how it could evolve and produce higher levels of complexity including ourselves. We therefore default to the Judeo-Christian God delusion.

3. Our view of human nature is false, based on the Old and New Testament concepts of innate evil and the need for authoritarianism—the result being that we crush our children’s developing wills and submit ourselves willingly to the ruling oligarchy.

4. We venerate Judaism and Christianity as religions of love and peace, when they are in fact religions of authoritarianism, ignorance, hatred fear, exploitation, and warfare. One needs only to actually read their texts and see what their devotees do to understand this fact.

5. We are told that we are 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 money-creation (banking), the media, and the government-sponsored corporations.

6. Because our minds are infested with the Judeo-Christian mental virus, we destroy our children, coercing and schooling them, institutionalizing them for 12 years and sabotaging their natural ability to think and to learn. We are slaves and we create slaves.

7. Our conventional medicine is based upon a false “diagnosis and drug” model promoted by the pharmaceutical corporations, with the result that doctors know little about human physiology or mental function, nor about how to actually find the cause and correct our disorders.

8. Our society is deformed, stupid, violent, and dysfunctional. It is deteriorating rapidly. We are self-destructing and change is coming. Whether that change will bring improvement or disaster is up to us. We must begin to use our intellectual capabilities.

By what means can we identify and solve problems? How can we identify and replace the false beliefs that we’ve inherited from mankind’s infancy? 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? What do we call our efforts to make certain that all our ideas conform to Cosmic reality? Science? Wrong. What we call “Science” is part of the problem! Look at the archetypes of modern Science, Einstein's Relativity and Quantum Theory. On close inspection, one can see that they are nothing but models of the observer’s conscious experience—his sensations and measurements. They place 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. All other sciences attempt to imitate theoretical 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 “Science” is ignorance parading as knowledge.

So if not Science, what do we call our attempts to go beyond experience--to explain the Cosmos--what exists and what causes our experiences? Religion? Well, religions may have been serious attempts to explain everything, back when they were created. Unfortunately, their creators were ignorant human beings whose speculations and stories arose from their ignorance and served their own purposes. Religions are primitive belief systems that could not evolve with the advance of knowledge. They are intellectual fossils. They do, however, attempt to provide answers to the big questions—What is the Cosmos? Why are we here? What should we do? So what would we call an attempt to deal with these big questions rationally? What would we call a “religion” that was not dogmatic, that grew and changed with the advance of knowledge? What would we call a religion that was logical and didn't make obvious errors like depending upon myths and anthropomorphic analogies? 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 the most powerful use of our linguistic ability. It is the act of making our word-formulas correspond to reality. It 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 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 a pale shadow of the real thing. Philosophy is what Science should be, it is what we are taught to think that Science is. Science (capital “S”), however, is a truncated, emasculated version of philosophy created in the Enlightenment to allow us to pursue our curiosity about technical matters while preventing us from using our full intellectual abilities to grasp the nature and causes of things. Science was created by religious men to save Judeo-Christianity and the societies built upon it. Science has worked as planned, protecting religious and political doctrines and regimes (and the elites who exploit them) from the threat of philosophy. The price we pay is enormous. It has prevented us from exiting the Middle Ages. Our minds our constricted, our lives distorted, our art degraded, and our work unsatisfying. We remain trapped 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 and 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. Mere 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. We make things, so someone made the Cosmos. 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 vast size of this Cosmos compared to the isolation of the special humans, the obvious evolutionary process that produced humans, the known aspects of biology, etc. Worse, the God that most people think of, the Judaic spirit-God of the Bible, is a evil monster that deserves only condemnation 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 from a bunch of little flying balls 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. 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 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 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. The evidence demands the conclusion that we humans are the Cosmos become self-conscious. The Cosmos strives to produce higher and higher levels of complexity, including self-aware beings who can think philosophically. This understanding of our true relationship to the Cosmos is obscured by Einstein’s physics, which only describes the observer’s experience--as if space is not physical and causes nothing. If space is nothing at all, then no fundamental physical phenomena (light, inertia, gravity, slowing of moving clocks, inability of matter to move faster than light, etc.) can be explained physically. All these physical phenomena can only be due to magic. The known facts of physics absolutely require that “empty” space is a physical substance. The denial of the existence of physical space (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. We need a new physics based upon a new foundation. We must ask: What is this Ether-substance? 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?

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 become philosophers—able to reject all old and inadequate ideas and institutions and seek to understand reality as it is, so that we may live in harmony with the Cosmos and with each other. We will then begin to obtain 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 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 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

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 therefore 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.
Light is a Wave -- The idea that light is composed of flying photons is contradicted by the evidence. It is the electron that is "quantized", not light itself. We can only "see" light via its interactions with electrons.
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.
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 phenonmena. Etherism has a much greater explanatory power than the God theory and the four forces/particle 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).
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.
The Evil Pentateuch -- Have you ever actually read the Old Testament or thought seriously about its ideas? This essay is a clear demonstration 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.
Children and Childrearing -- We must grant children all the rights of any adult, in addition to meeting their need for protection, aid, and love.
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
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.

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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