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Duration: 03:40 minutes Upload Time: 07-08-05 17:33:09 User: dandelo19 :::: Favorites :::: Top Videos of Day |
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Description: This is the last segment of a BBC Horizon program (from the 1980's, I think). This is the physicist Richard Feynman discussing the scientific though process as opposed to that of religious and mystic thinkers. The interesting thing is that it is scientists who embrace the unknown and unknowable rather than the mystics.... |
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| sorienor ::: Favorites Let me enlighten you..in no way are we limited to the fallible senses in the pursuit of science. That is nothing but a lie. The senses can't tell you a rock is 99% empty space, but it is. Surface tension is meaningless to us, but not to a water-skimmer. Our ability to model reality is far superior to our ability to sense it. 07-09-28 05:46:19 __________________________________________________ | |
| kakudmi ::: Favorites You are the same, you can ignore God and the whole concept and never even try to understand what is behind the whole story and still live your life till the end. It is the matter of desire. If you are not interested, you will never learn about God. Thanks. 07-09-28 04:12:27 __________________________________________________ | |
| kakudmi ::: Favorites But the main question comes back to you a little bit differently; do you even want to do that? If I don't want to know anything about electricity I can live my life ignoring it, and at the same time using it, ... 07-09-28 04:11:05 __________________________________________________ | |
| kakudmi ::: Favorites I will tell you one way of understanding God; in the Vedic literature it is understood that one must practice a certain process of controlling mind and the process of thought. There is meditation and certain principles of life to follow but there's not time or space to explain all of that here. 07-09-28 04:09:51 __________________________________________________ | |
| kakudmi ::: Favorites That would be same as understanding electricity; you'd have to go through scientific educational system based on only scientific methods of learning and acquiring knowledge. Then after years of studying you start understanding how elecrticity works. And while understanding better and better you use only scientific methods and nothing else. 07-09-28 04:08:14 __________________________________________________ | |
| kakudmi ::: Favorites They will say we have to obsever the symptoms of things and events we cannot see. That's how we know. If I offer an apple pie as an instrument for proving the existence of electricity, what would they say? No, you have to use OUR methods. See, that is your answer. You cannot go about making up methods on your own. There are systems that show how to experience God. 07-09-28 04:06:42 __________________________________________________ | |
| kakudmi ::: Favorites If science says they have discovered the electricity, we have all reasons to doubt their claim until proven beyond any reasonable doubt. But proving the existance of electricity by using instruments same scientists have made themselves. And truly, those instruments show us something. But where is electricity? 07-09-28 04:04:49 __________________________________________________ | |
| kakudmi ::: Favorites And again, taking 'old' religions that used to rule people as a point of refference is not a good idea in any philosophical discussion. Just because christianity or islam failed to show they are capable of ruling over people does not dismiss any system of belief in God. Otherwise, emotions and feelings can go both ways. 07-09-28 04:02:53 __________________________________________________ | |
| CamiloSanchez1979 ::: Favorites i respect your opinion, just couple of things. Science has extended our life expectancy compared to the old way of relying on mere religion or witchcraft. Also, you r right technology doesn't make us any better but those statements belong more to sociology or philosophy 07-09-28 03:07:22 __________________________________________________ | |
| EGarrett01 ::: Favorites A simple question kakudmi. You said that Feynman did not "try to find out if there was a source of knowledge beyond our sensual limitations." How exactly would one go about doing that? 07-09-23 17:18:05 __________________________________________________ | |
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