From Certainty to Uncertainty, Pt. 2
Each of us today realizes our connection to the society in which we live through countless feedback loops. Each of us helps to generate and sustain the meaning by which that society functions.
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From Certainty to Uncertainty, Pt. 1
Quantum theory forces us to see the limits of our abilities to make images, to create metaphors, and push language to its ends. As we struggle to gaze into the limits of nature we dimly begin to discern something hidden in the dark shadows.
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Parallel Lines
Fundamentalism has several roots, including social, economic and political pressures but its essence is a series of shared beliefs that religious writings should be taken in a literal form. This confuses mythos and logos, a confusion that did not exist before the Enlightenment and rise of science.
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Wolfgang Pauli: Resurrection of Spirit in the World
In considering this relationship between science and religion it is useful to turn to the life of Wolfgang Pauli, one of the most important physicists of the twentieth century.