On Sheldrake, Fluidity, and the future of Physics.

On Sheldrake, Fluidity, and the future of Physics.

 

The only evidence I have found for Rupert Sheldrake’s theory of a law-less Universe and the only evidence I could need or hope for is that it’s the only view of Physics that, once entertained, has improved my aim.

 

This is not ‘merely’ anecdotal. It is in fact the most immediate, reliable evidence a human being can hope for.

 

Traditional physics does not benefit Athletes or Artists; it only improves the performance of Mathematicians and Engineers.

 

The only reason to vilify the anecdotal is that my experience is not that of an engineer. Yet that is a terrible reduction.

 

Technology is a form of Power.

For its ends, we need a Physics (and therefore a discipline of Physics) that follows stringent Laws.

 

Yet the human individual is not a machine. That view originated in the nineteenth century with the intent of employing the human being as one.

 

We therefore need a view of Science which is not oppressive. Since any ‘Truth’ that is available to inter-subjectivity depends at least in part upon the capacity to represent the world in an image in a word or set of words that can indicate the world, all Truth reflects, inextricably (except where it is deeply individual, and therefore perhaps non-verbal) both the culture and the subjectivity of the speaker.

There is no ‘objective Science’ to take the throne of the usurped Power God of antiquity.

 

The Athlete responds to a changing environment without thinking to link one moment to another. But the stringent theorist hoards reality in abstractions that carry the illusory quality of constancy and obscure the fluidity of the world.

This needs to change. We must transcend and include.

 

Dm.A.A.