Our power

Month, Day: 166, Power, Glory (Majesty)
Month, Day: 166, Power, Light (Beauty)

The Operational is done for the year, except for those monthly occurrences of days (Names, Might, Will, Knowledge).

The Motivational, which just started, consists of Power, Speech, Questions (basis for science), Honour.

We humans have several types of power, including the ability to use tools which causes all sorts of artifacts to abound. For the most part, our prowess has, can have, benefits (ever-advancing civilization). These we need to understand better.

Too, we have mental powers. Here, hubris can run amok as we see. How to dampen? Well, one way is prayer and thoughtful reflection on the Writings.

How does, or can, that impact our abilities to do science? Well, we know that we can know some things a priori, in the Kantian sense as well as that related to the Transcendent and the Teleological. But, there are limits as we have been told (4th Valley: Were all the denizens of earth and heaven to unravel this shining allusion, this darksome riddle, until the Day when the Trumpet soundeth, yet would they fail to comprehend even a letter thereof, for this is the station of God’s immutable decree, His foreordained mystery. Hence, when searchers inquired of this, He made reply, “This is a bottomless sea which none shall ever fathom.” And they asked again, and He answered, “It is the blackest of nights through which none can find his way.” ). Some of the limits are Operational, such as that type described by Heisenberg, and some result from analytic-synthetic dynamics, requiring acknowledgment for the quasi-empirical framework.

In short, we need to know better the two ways of knowing and doing.

Remarks:

11/16/2010 -- What can science know?

11/20/2009 -- For the Motivational group: Our power, Power of music, Power is.

Modified: 11/16/2010