Thursday, October 30, 2014

We can see enough of reality, and we will see more when we evolve


Philosophers and scientists tend to underestimate what we can see of reality as “merely” appearance, and religionists overestimate what we can see of reality. When Kant and others discovered that we don't see all of reality they went a bit overboard in limiting what we see as only the inaccurate appearance of reality. The subjective world was exaggerated and real objects were minimized.

But why is it prejudiced if we tend to regard what is real and true in relation to what favors the preservation of life or the species? That is mainly what the truth and reality is! Reality finds a correlation between degrees of value and degrees of reality. What reality would they have, one that does not involve life and survival? Life does not seem to be enough for them.

We see enough to know of real objects and we will see more when we evolve. We see more than a frog sees of reality, and with higher evolution beyond the human species we will see more, and if we evolve to Godhood we may see most of reality. Appearance contains enough reality. We can know what we are, and where we are going, we can see the evolution of life, if we have courage, and intelligence.

Scientific or positive knowledge tends to be indifferent to religious knowledge and religion is indifferent to scientific knowledge, and they need to come together. Theological materialism can bring them together: we evolve in the material world to supermaterial Godhood, the God first symbolically experienced in the Inward Paths of religion. Understanding this does not require the same old puzzles of epistemology and ontology which philosophers seem to enjoy more than finding reality.

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