Is Science Wrong? :o

[99th_monkey]

Science is useful in the world of mind. Just hold it as that, and not absolute truth, which is unknowable

[30secs]

right and wrong were simply another illusions, Science is not right or wrong, but it became wrong when a rationalist/scientist is so attached on it , feels all the way they've got the Truth.

[Prabhaker]

Scientifically we are in the 21 century, psychologically we are lagging far behind. And this is one of the causes of misery on the earth, of poverty on the earth, of illness on the earth, of sadness. This whole sadness and misery can disappear once we decide to be contemporary as far as psychology is concerned; in fact, psychology should be a littleahead of scientific technology.

We have to be psychologically ahead of the time, psychologically far more developed than the scientific technology is. Only then can you use it, otherwise you are bound to misuse it. Now science has made possible everything which can transform the earth into a paradise. There is no need to look for a paradise in the afterlife – it can happen now and here. And for the first time it is possible: 

Edited September 26, 2016 by Prabhaker

[Andrea Marchetti]

Science is an effort of the intellect to understand reality. So, in order to understand the power and the limits of science, one must ponder about the powers and limits of the intellect.
The intellect works by dividing reality into separate things, so it can understand how things relate to each other. Since reality is an indivisible continuum the intellect creates concepts, which are virtual wrappings of reality, to divide it. If the intellect works with concepts then science must be made of concepts.
The intellect can work in mainly two ways: one is associative and the other is ruled based. Philosophy, for example, is an associative effort of the intellect to understand reality. Math instead is the tool the intellect created to understand reality based on rule thinking; modern science is based upon math. Association without rule is more powerful than rule without association because with rule the intellect submit to results, in association the intellect creates. Both ways can go astray: associations can shortcut and rules can be many based on a single previous wrong rule.
Intellect is a powerful tool, which gave us all the technologies we have and also all the philosophies we have. Basically everything that is man made is born as a concept first, on any level.

The main problem with intellect lies in the nature of concepts. As analogy, you can think about the intellect like a painter, each painting is a concept. If you paint an apple then the painting of the apple is not the apple, but it's an accurate virtual representation of the apple. But the painter can also paint things that don't represent anything in reality... But even if the intellect can create abstract concepts, it can use them anyway, to relate with other concepts as if they have a correlation. To me, modern science, especially physics, is sucked into this loop of ghost-concepts; seeing reality through this layer of totally abstract concepts and loosing the touch with experience.

The intellect is powerful, it can make us see far, it created language... But it is also true that there is no substance in intellectual concepts, whether they are abstract or experiential derived. The solution for this is to use the intellect as a tool which can be taken on and off when necessary, understanding it as a tool and understanding also that experiencing reality is more important and powerful than seeing reality. Trying to see reality without experiencing it is just fantasy.

[abrakamowse]

Mind cannot experience presence.