| Re: One TOE or many?
TinyTree/Unreal Zelta,
I think the way we generate worldviews or interpretations of reality can be drawn into the scientificly researchable with neurology, psychology, sociology, history, etc. And maybe than we discover, as I suggested in the earlier thread 'Variation is the key', that all our philosophies, religions, etc., are variations on some order or pattern or theme that has it's effect in our brain and consciousness while interacting with reality. So TOE? If TOE than beyond the paradigmatical diversity of the subject.
Sidsharthsma,
Your naturalistic worldview would also be part of what can be generated out of this general pattern. What means a law concerning the physical reality wouldn't be sufficient for explaining everything. It would explain a part of an everything that is a variation on a really general principle. It would explain for instance the mathematics that made the physical laws possible.
To me, I don't distinguish between 'the world out there' and 'the world within' - referring to the great subject-object-divide that came up in the Modern Time (Descartes, Kant, Husserl, etc.). In my opinion it is all part of one developing system: universe, nature, culture and us as reality-interpreting organisms. This system consists of elements that bear information that can be ordered into patterns. And all these patterns can, I think, be organised via reversed variation into a central theme, that really would be the TOE.
What do you think?  |