tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post7804736633715473522..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: More On The Proposed Mathematical Third Realm of Reality Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-7899083655017802542017-08-04T09:50:03.040-04:002017-08-04T09:50:03.040-04:00The "religious" mindset (where you posit...The "religious" mindset (where you posit "religion" is the product of faith (trust) in a set of assertions which are eternal and wholly external; not the definition of "religion" I think valid, just the one commonly entertained) is really quite strong in humanity.<br /><br />The cave paintings in France were deep underground, hard to get to, and obviously the product of ritual, not just the desire of artistic expression. Post-Enlightenment Europeans have dismissed religion as the product of "darkness" (i.e., non-enlightened thinking). But the conviction that science and math are universals which cannot be gainsaid is as religious an attitude as that of any stereotypical medieval peasant. We've simply swapped a system, a language (in Wittgenstein's terms, if not in terms recognized by linguists) for a deity. <br /><br />Religion has a great deal in common with science, and it isn't through the mythology of explaining where thunder comes from or why it rains. It is why they fight each other so much. Yin/yang; the speck in your eye, a reflection of the log in my own.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com