The Science Delusion - Rupert Sheldrake
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The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in.
In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world’s most innovative scientists, shows that science is being constructed by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. The sciences would be better off without them: freer, more interesting, and more fun.
According to the dogmas of science, all reality is material or physical. The world is a machine, made up of dead matter. Nature is purposeless. Consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain. Free will is an illusion. God exists only as an idea in human minds; imprisoned within our skulls. But should science be a belief-system, or a method of enquiry?
Sheldrake shows that the materialist ideology is moribund; under its sway, increasingly expensive research is reaping diminishing returns. In the sceptical spirit of true science, Sheldrake turns the 10 fundamental dogmas of materialism into exciting questions, and shows how all of them open up startling new possibilities.
The Science Delusion will radically change your view of what is possible. And give you new hope for the world.
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This post has 24 comments with rating of 5/5
May 5th, 2019
Thanks, it sounds interesting. Most people don’t even understand the scientific method these days.
May 6th, 2019
I’ve been aware of Rupert Sheldrake for over 30 years. If any of his ideas had any evidence to back them up, he would have received Nobel Prizes, rather than ridicule from the real scientific community.
May 6th, 2019
Sheldrake’s big idea is morphic resonance, which posits that “natural systems… inherit a collective memory from all previous things of their kind.”* Imagine if we were born with not just genes, but with embedded memes(!)
Sheldrake also proposes that morphic resonance is responsible for “telepathy-type interconnections between organisms.”
I’m going to fall back on the Sagan standard on this one, “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence”
* Sheldrake, Rupert (2011). The presence of the past: Morphic resonance and the habits of nature. Icon Books.
May 6th, 2019
Thought he sounded like a fruitcake:
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Rupert_Sheldrake
“Most of Sheldrake’s ideas are clearly pseudoscientific nonsense. Morphic resonance is extremely vague and ill-defined, and can only really be described as whatever Sheldrake says it is. Crucially, it is not falsifiable, and therefore not testable (although some have tried).
“Sheldrake’s 2012 book, The Science Delusion, is an anti-scientific rant in which he applies postmodernist hyperscepticism to conventional science, accusing mainstream scientists of adhering to “scientific dogmata”, such as the constancy of the speed of light. Ironically, Sheldrake fails to apply any sort of scepticism to his own ideas, which he promotes uncritically, despite there being no evidence for them.”
May 6th, 2019
mmmhhh, fruitcake…I’m quite partial (ain’t we all?).
May 6th, 2019
> mmmhhh, fruitcake…I’m quite partial (ain’t we all?).
Nope. Metaphorically or materially. I make a point of not partaking in either.
May 6th, 2019
Found in bookstores under the section: “Creationism and other such nonsense”.
May 6th, 2019
It’s sad when someone cannot accept all their ideas a wrong so they claim science itself must be broken.
May 6th, 2019
Yep. Clearly a lunatic.
May 6th, 2019
Many thanks.
May 6th, 2019
File under “Fiction”
May 6th, 2019
@caesar - chuck the fruitcake and the rum ideas
May 6th, 2019
@ssafe - I think I might hang on to the actual rum - if it’s all the same. I’m worried about another Ides of March; pressure on the old nerves, dontcha know. And the attack on Winterfell nearly finished me off.
@Sancho - But, the “partial” pun? I didn’t want you to concentrate solely on the fruitcake factor/dimension. I thought that I hit that pun squarely outta the park. Well, no one wants to get it now (another pun).
As the keywords enjoin: we have to think externally to the parameters of received cardboard receptacles.
May 6th, 2019
@caesar - I believe that Urban Dictionary must update what it means to be a punter - as you clearly punted that pun (and in doing so it skewed, incomplete, falling short of the ontological tautology).
May 6th, 2019
My dear old dad also used to tell me that I had no respect for ontological tautologies.
I don’t care for it when my splendiferous, life-affirming puns get negative reviews (panned puns) - they’re supposed to bring joy to a cruel world. I have to go and lie down in a darkened chamber now.
May 6th, 2019
Your puns are important to us. A representative will be with you shortly.
Caesar, as you lie down in that darkened chamber, purr-haps you avoid any particles in a state of quantum superpositions, especially those in the process of atomic decay.
May 6th, 2019
I’m the only decaying particle in that particular chamber. I’ll keep generating my lame-ass puns then, if there’s a congenial market for ‘em.
May 7th, 2019
Thought provoking.
More Sheldrake please! :-)
May 7th, 2019
Big fan of your other uploads, Cheers!
Curiosity has gotten the better of me with this one.
And if Rupert is making the Sciences “more interesting, and more fun.” I don’t want to be left out…
May 11th, 2019
WOO WOO PIMP
July 7th, 2019
Looks like an interesting read. Thanks. This video is related to the whole science question.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=El1Z7yLZDv8
September 19th, 2021
HI can you also upload “The Physics of Angels by Rupert sheldrake?
June 25th, 2023
Thank you.
Sheldrake can back everything up with hard data. Some commenters here are beyond deranged, not having even read enough to he debunked their shallow attempts at defamation literally decades ago.
March 29th, 2024
I agree with you wholeheartedly, tn4suw.
When people feel they need to resort to ad hominem attacks, name-calling, etc., it always is a sign of weakness, poor intellectual discipline, and poverty of character.
If one is really in the right, both morally and intellectually, one doesn’t act like a childish bully. And yet, there are many of these self-appointed thought-policemen in the scientific church keeping people in fear of posing questions of established beliefs (dogma), of revered books and articles (holy scriptures), and of posing new ideas, whether fun, crazy.
It’s very clear the purpose is to not have a flourishing environment of thought and discussion within science, but to keep the status quo at all cost, and to keep apostates and heretics out, and keep the doctrine dogmatic and keep any questioning of it taboo.
Most academics and scientists feel know and/or feel this. But in today’s world, unlike in previous centuries, there are a miniscule number of independent scientists. Most depend on the machine. Most cannot afford to be identified as a wrong-thinker, an apostate or a heretic. That will be the end of their career. People such as the above-mentioned members of the thought-police (we have seen examples of these creatures in this comments-section) will make it their project to make sure of it. Keeping people from questioning depends on fear, and fear depends on there being a credible threat.
That’s the way bullies in all forms have always maintained their power: keeping everyone from speaking against up, in fear that it might happen to them.
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