No one today (in their cotton picken mind) would say the earth is flat, or that the sun revolves around the earth. The findings of objective scientific research based on the Discours de la methode of Descartes have gained acceptance and general respect--but more often than not we still make fun of the subjective research that has been done for millennia by spiritual adepts, using different methods of studying reality from a purely subjective point of view. But the ultimate proof is in the pudding--and in its intimate interaction with our taste buds, as educated in a specific cultural environment with its own culinary and gustatory traditions. The proof of the pudding is therefore not in its objective qualities, but precisely in the entirely subjective taste of the tasters taste buds. Is it not time to acknowledge that there is a great deal we do not know, but which may have been known to many scientific experts in subjective research. Subjective research is the process by which one seeks to know oneself. I call it the process of autognosis. That process does not stop at the boundaries of the apparently separate body-mind. After all: where would those boundaries be? What are the boundaries of your thoughts, your feelings, your imagination. And where is the precise boundary of your body from moment to moment? The Heisenberg indeterminacy principle does not just apply at the microscopic level. At other levels, there is a similar indeterminacy principle which makes exact knowledge impossible for us to establish. Time, space and human pyschology tend to interfere with any such overly ambitions objective approaches to autognosis. From the link: ANALYSIS: No Transmitting Aliens Detected in Kepler SETI Search But before the age of exoplanetary discoveries, SETI was uncertain whether the stars they were eavesdropping in on even hosted planets. But now, especially since the launch of Kepler in 2009, there are an abundance of stellar targets that are known to host exoplanets — many of which orbit in the habitable zones of their stars. Therefore, following up on these Kepler discoveries with the ATA has ushered in a new era of “directed SETI.” So far, the ATA has been looking for signals in the 1000-2250 MHz range emanating from HIP 116454b and Shostak reports that higher frequencies will also be analyzed. It seems that directed SETI will leave no exoplanetary stone unturned in its epic and sustained mission to seek out intelligent extraterrestrial life in our galaxy.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 23:29:55 +0000
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