Fallout from the conversation that created Landfill Underground

1.      9/29 3am: Landfill Underground (with Denver)

2.      Human consciousness is continually making predictions of the future based on assimilation (reconciliation) of the past as it moves presently into the future. The development is Erfahrung, and the experiences that may or may not harmonize with predictions are Erlebnisse. In much the same way, scientific theories (the past; historical development) are used to make hypotheses (predictions of the future) which are tested in the present. The dialectical nature of human consciousness is the immediate foundation (or manifestation – either) of this embedded, temporal unfolding. When we assimilate new Erlebnisse into our Erfahrung, we suffer a kind of shock, which can be good (new tastes, new states, new ideas) or bad (destabilizing, causing fear, inducing anxiety). In order to re-cohere (restabilize, reclimitize) our world, our mind reconciles the experience and simultaneously creates a metalanguage between the two opposing perspectives. This openness to the world is the trait that was not recognized by Kuhn when he wrote of incommensurability across paradigms. Each mind, each scientist incorporates (or tries to, with varying degrees of penetration of reconciliation and extrapolation) old and new results into some sort of theory (with varying degrees of knowledge and explicitness of theory). The field as a whole is moved in part (dialectical relation) by the activity of the individuals, and so the theory can progress with the developing metalanguages of each of the individual scientists and also (especially) in their communal reconciliation of thoughts (which are sorts of predictions).

3.      1:22 pm: Of course, we have reached an impasse between quantum mechanics and relativity, but we will overcome this hurdle as our threshold of precision of thinking and our openness of concepts can dig down into the depths of the world and accept into their arms the delicate depths of those realities. Surely though, there will always be things that escape us.