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It occurred to me that modern science and major religions study the same thing. The central axiom of religions is the consciousness-matter duality. The one uber
by akomtu 4y ago
It occurred to me that modern science and major religions study the same thing. The central axiom of religions is the consciousness-matter duality. The one uber consciousness (aka the god, the one without the other) brings everything into existence and splits itself into many pieces to inhabit this world. Compare this to the QM-GR duality: GR tells us what the matter really is, while QM tells the story of one uber wave-function that brings everything into existence and splits itself into many "particles" that evolve more or less independently.
There is one important difference, though. Religions say that all this has a purpose: the one great consciousness wants to understand itself. Science, on the other hand, believes in chaos.
- jemmyw 4y agoUltimately any purpose is circular because there's always another why. And science doesn't necessarily describe chaos. There are some questions science just doesn't answer and doesn't need to. We might never get the tools to peer past the boundaries of space and time, so speculation made by scientists in those areas is still kind of religious or at least not science. Religion can simply say God created everything last Thursday as if it had always been, and science has no refutation for that and doesn't need one. Therefore I disagree with your analysis just because currently you can make that analogous comparison. There's probably always something like that because social discourse will spread current science to religion and vice versa, but they do not really need to compete. Also science has a chance of solving it's split but religion and philosophy will bang on about consciousness forever.
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