Seeing Our World

Vision seems so simple. We open our eyes and there is the world. Yet scientists have long appreciated how difficult this is to explain.

For a start, we move our eyes about five or six times a second, fixating on something and then moving quickly on, but we don’t notice this, and the world appears stable. Also, what we can see clears only a tiny area around that fixation point, yet it feels as though we are seeing the whole scene at once.

Zen and the Art of Consciousness
Susan Blackmore

Age of Science

The age of science is the knowledge revolution of the last four centuries.

The scientific revolution was characterized by four traumatic innovations:

• Discovery of Truth
  A new method for the discovery of truth, which challenged ancestral tradition and folk wisdom by appeal to experimentation and evidence.
• Origins
  Overthrow of the basic beliefs that most people cherished concerning the origins and nature of the universe, life, and people.
• Information & Knowledge
  Never-ending surge of new information and knowledge about the world, which was too relentless and too complex for and single individual to master.
• New Technologies
  Conceiving and producing of new technologies, which gave to humans the power that formerly belonged only to the gods.

Staying Sane in a Crazy World
Sherwin Wine

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And it is because in the last analysis we ourselves are part of the mystery we are trying to solve.

…..Max Planck

The Seeker’s Guide
Elizabeth Lesser