A scientific argument against the reliability of commonsense to lead you to fundamental truths. “Evolution has equipped us for commonsense and for visualisation, if you like, of everyday states of affairs, strategies that have survival value. There is no survival value in being able to visualise what is going on inside an atom, and yet we can still come to understand atoms in a certain way without this inner visualisation or intuition! We achieve this by using mathematics as our sure guide. So: ‘Abandon commonsense all ye who enter here.’ If you remain wedded to commonsense ideas of reality when you tackle topics like quantum mechanics, you can be sure that they will lead you astray.” Physicist, Prof Paul Davies. I think this has theological implications and analogies - but its the weekend!
Posted on: Sat, 27 Sep 2014 03:05:26 +0000