03-14-2013, 09:19 PM
(03-14-2013, 06:13 PM)Avocado Wrote: http://blog.ted.com/2013/03/14/open-for-...TEDBlog%29Science is not about what you are capable of believing or experiencing. It's about an ability to explain these things. If a person's worldview can't be explained with sufficient rigor, even philosophically, there's really not much to leverage for learning. It's really that simple.
Well TED done it. They censored Sheldrake along with Graham Hancock.
I was angry when I saw this but I'm actually pretty happy it they got exposure to begin with, and this might even bring more attention to them. This has opened my eyes to how much the consensus reality isn't synonymous with the majority worldview. I wonder how many among us are "in the closet non-materialists". In the London Real interview Sheldrake suggested a lot of scientists share non-material worldviews.
On a personal level it helped me see my own defensiveness toward my worldview. I do tend to have a "beef" with materialist science but that's for me to practice spaciousness and forgiveness.