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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