scameter
21st November 2005, 02:22 PM
I just finished reading Lipton's paper, The Human Genome Project, posted here at thebigview.com, and honestly my conclusion of it was that it is sad how we humans learn such arrogance conditioning in early life, that we are taught that through facts we can learn everything. And thusly forward, we become scientists, and then try to understand biological and physical questions that interest us, mainly because humans naturally enjoy systems and building compilations and science is essentially that, but utilized in nature with mathematics and logic facts. But, all of the scientific knowledge we have, essentially, has already been discovered about 2 thousand years ago. As he was writing his paper, the specific section about the Human Genome Project, and similarly qunatum physics, nearly made me laugh out loud at my desk. Mainly so, because everything therein had already been discovered, as he said, in ancient healing, medicine, and spiritual healing processes, like those used by Taoists. And physics were also essentially learned by the Taoists. Thus, all the science we have now's main place is in it's technological application, and as he said, the Genome Project was meant to help us advance in medical science, but out of the Cosmic Joke of life it did nothing but show us how ignorant we are and arrogant, that the entire project was really a failure as he said, and only a route to a new biological study in the "belief" system of human biology. His entire paper, btw extremely well-written and very interesting, showed me essentially two things: one, that everything currently in science, the facts and applied technologies aside, were already essentially discovered by ancient clergymen and shamans of the Taoist and other background of the ancient cultures. And two, that humans really aren't meant to understand life. All of life that we see is that which springs from our perception, which is greatly coloured, even more than i previously believed, by our conditioning and beliefs. Oh and three, it also showed me that philosophy and psychology are much more...human, in a sense, than the hardline factual sciences, because these two beauties are flexible, and can be filled with that rich mixture of curiosity, passion, and exercise that humanity is so concocted with. We need to honestly realise that life is a joke, merely so, and that humans are merely what we are; we should cast away our arrogance and our conditioning so, and become human once more. To live impassioned and curious, philosophical to the end. Almost like a race of wizards continuously striking out for new grounds, new lessons to learn, new ways of seeing things and feeling things, to indeed be gods. That such a seriousness to life as must people take is not necessary! We should be humans, and actually live! Existence is full of life, of time, of humanity, and we are there to be a conduit of such. As Whitman said:"O me1 O life! Of the questions of these recurring! Of the endless trains of the faithless. Of the cities fill'd with the foolish....What good amid these o me o life? Answer: that you are here, and life exists, and identity. That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." :)