/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4756769
>implying meditation = prayer

>this thread
The word "observe" in this context means to take measurement
Of course physically interacting with it will affect it.
How you inferred observation = consciousness is beuond me.

>there are still people like the OP

>so we can stop burning up our planet
>uses image of nuclear power plant cooling towers

>>4622408
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzpL_5CI0WQ
The Immanuel Kant Song. Please.
Let us first divide cognition into rational analysis
and sensory perception (which Descartes considered valueless).
Now reason gives us concepts which are true but tautological;
sensation gives us images whose content is phenomenal.

Whatever greets our senses must exist in space and time
for else it would be nowhere and nowhen and therefore slime;
the space and time we presuppose before we sense reality
must have innate subjective transcendental ideality.

Thus space and time
are forms of our perception
whereby sensation’s synthesized in orderly array;
the same must hold
for rational conception:
in everything we think, the laws of logic must hold sway.

But a problem here arises with respect to natural science:
while empirical in method, on pure thought it lays reliance.
Although for Newton’s findings we to Newton give the glory
Newton never could have found them if they weren’t known a priori.

We know that nature governed is by principles immutable
but how we come to know this is inherently inscrutable;
that thought requires logic is a standpoint unassailable
but for objects of our senses explanations aren’t available.