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@CACRadicalGrace @RichardRohrOFM Indeed, the identical heresy of the scientific method or, as Thomas Berry encapsulates it, the "downward reductionism of the mechanists and the upward reductionism of the spiritualists.” No wonder the call for a New Reformation. A New Reconcilation, then? ?s=20&t=jygN9r6anfFtNTRziHKfyA

Copy of quote tweet: Nick Routledge 3/ But what if lived experience of the One Life isn’t actually a form of distance-learning? What if the minute particulars of life represent the immediate, transcendent ground of the overarching veracity of a vast, mostly unseen, singular, energy event? Quote Tweet Nick Routledge · ...reveals the universe not to be a collection of objects but, as #PaulDavies puts it, "an inseparable web of complicated energy patterns in which no one component has reality independently of the entirety; and included in the entirety is the observer." - Quantitative Romanticism 12:59 PM · Jun 16, 2021
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Copy of quote tweet: Nick Routledge 3/ But what if lived experience of the One Life isn’t actually a form of distance-learning? What if the minute particulars of life represent the immediate, transcendent ground of the overarching veracity of a vast, mostly unseen, singular, energy event? Quote Tweet Nick Routledge · ...reveals the universe not to be a collection of objects but, as #PaulDavies puts it, "an inseparable web of complicated energy patterns in which no one component has reality independently of the entirety; and included in the entirety is the observer." - Quantitative Romanticism 12:59 PM · Jun 16, 2021

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Nick Routledge@nick_routledge · 12 Sept 2022

@SophiaCycles 1/ And so it goes that the raging battle between science and religion is ultimately transcended in common acknowledgement of reality as not only stranger than we imagine, but stranger than we can imagine. Irony of ironies: wisdom harmonizes, as one, into increased bewilderment! x.com/covidyoga/status/1569399897060950016

At the same time, critiques of science as a "secular humanist" conspiracy bent on usurping religion's power to make sense of the world around us, are concomitant with science's own demolition of traditional notions of universal truth and objective reality, a process hastened along by Godel's incompleteness theorem, a cornerstone of modern mathematics that the mathematician Godfrey Harold Hardy defines as the assertion that "there exist meaningful mathematical statements that are neither provable nor disprovable, now or ever...because the very nature of logic renders them incapable of resolution." The philosophical implications of Godel's theorem are "devastating," according to Hardy.
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At the same time, critiques of science as a "secular humanist" conspiracy bent on usurping religion's power to make sense of the world around us, are concomitant with science's own demolition of traditional notions of universal truth and objective reality, a process hastened along by Godel's incompleteness theorem, a cornerstone of modern mathematics that the mathematician Godfrey Harold Hardy defines as the assertion that "there exist meaningful mathematical statements that are neither provable nor disprovable, now or ever...because the very nature of logic renders them incapable of resolution." The philosophical implications of Godel's theorem are "devastating," according to Hardy.

The mathematician and cyberpunk novelist Rudy Rucker, who delights in such bombshells, asserts, "Godel has shown that the fundamental logical notion of 'truth' has no rational definition." What's [more], Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, a precept of quantum mechanics, leads to the inescapable conclusion that the very act of observation affects the state of the phenomenon observed, an axiom that plays havoc with the notion of objective truth. "The age of absolutes, if it ever really existed, is now most definitely and permanently passe," concludes the mathematician John L. Casti. "Einstein's work buried once and for all the concepts of absolute space and time, while Heisenberg shot down the belief in absolutely precise measurement. Godel, of course, stamped paid to the quaint and curious ideas of absolute proof and truth." Mark Dery
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The mathematician and cyberpunk novelist Rudy Rucker, who delights in such bombshells, asserts, "Godel has shown that the fundamental logical notion of 'truth' has no rational definition." What's [more], Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, a precept of quantum mechanics, leads to the inescapable conclusion that the very act of observation affects the state of the phenomenon observed, an axiom that plays havoc with the notion of objective truth. "The age of absolutes, if it ever really existed, is now most definitely and permanently passe," concludes the mathematician John L. Casti. "Einstein's work buried once and for all the concepts of absolute space and time, while Heisenberg shot down the belief in absolutely precise measurement. Godel, of course, stamped paid to the quaint and curious ideas of absolute proof and truth." Mark Dery

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Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @HootenWilson What a lovely prompt. At the time (an agnostic, anti-religious zealot) I couldn't see it, but it was secular science that originally lit the flame of numinosity in me. As such, perhaps my intellectual life first 'awakened' reading Hofstadter on Godel and the enigma of paradox.Quoted by@HootenWilson What a lovely prompt. At the time (an agnostic, anti-religious zealot) I couldn't see it, but it was secular science that originally lit the flame of numinosity in me. As such, perhaps my intellectual life first 'awakened' reading Hofstadter on Godel and the enigma of paradox.Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @AimeTim Vilayat Khan: “Revisioning God as the Universe has staggering implications for how we view reality.” Scientism, as religionism, a comprehensive cult. So, paraphrasing de Chardin: "Our calling is not to turn from the world to the Universe but to turn to the Universe in the world."Quoted by@AimeTim Vilayat Khan: “Revisioning God as the Universe has staggering implications for how we view reality.” Scientism, as religionism, a comprehensive cult. So, paraphrasing de Chardin: "Our calling is not to turn from the world to the Universe but to turn to the Universe in the world."Quoted byRT @nick_routledge: @RasooolAkbari @jbralston On holistic experience, essentially Thomistic 'intuition of being', Richard Rohr: "Ideas are not a problem, but a true inner experience is something else: “full-access knowing”—prerational, nonrational, rational, and transrational all at once. [It] refuses to be reductionistic.”Quoted by@RasooolAkbari @jbralston On holistic experience, essentially Thomistic 'intuition of being', Richard Rohr: "Ideas are not a problem, but a true inner experience is something else: “full-access knowing”—prerational, nonrational, rational, and transrational all at once. [It] refuses to be reductionistic.”