transition said:
be halfway there possibly, something of of social constructionist paradise really, or perhaps more a dystopia, who knows
maybe it’s the end days, the end days of nature, the human conception of the world evolved, the way people experience it will be compressed down to the more immediate experience, history will largely be abandoned, arguably culture might be abandoned
the contemporists will rule
maybe it will eventuate that only the previous hour matters, or previous day, stretch that to a week or year, whatever fluidity that way is convenient, or expedient, give it light regard, fleeting, transient maybe
whatever detachment, to that end
but who rules the parallel worlds that are, into the future, what was made so and what was made not, made so by what was made not, and who might be left to consider what is displaced by what is, now, but further what might be completely vanished, vanished from consciousness, and what consciousness might be vanished
what consciousness might be banished, and the remaining converge
is it a no-place waiting, when there is no nature outside of science, when science entirely substitutes for nature, if it did
I can see a possibility in future when science substitutes for nature.
There are already a few signs of heading that way.
1. Computational fluid dynamics as a mathematical model
It’s a proven mathematical theorem that the mathematics of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) cannot accurately model natural fluid movement.
At first, the CFD was run parallel to real fluid measurements to ascertain the errors in CFD.
But then, as time progressed, people started accepting results from CFD as face value correct, even though everyone knows that they aren’t. In another generation, people will forget that the computed results are always wrong, and start treating computed results as definitively correct, beyond need of checking.
There are other similar cases that don’t involve computers, but do involve formal analogies. For instance using a fluid flow tank as a simulation of the horizon of a black hole, and looking to see whether an analogy of Hawking Radiation can be seen in the fluid flow.
To put it another way, where a model of reality is wrongly taken as an exact representation of nature itself.
You want some other examples? String theory is a hypothesis, a model of nature that is probably not correct. But it is still scientifically studied as if it was correct. Ditto f(x) gravity is a probably incorrect model of dark matter. But it is scientifically studied as if it was correct.
To put it another way. We end up scientifically studying models of nature that are not correct, treating them as if they are correct.
2. Virtual reality
When in a virtual reality situation, the mind is challenged to make sense of the virtual reality.
Pretty soon, we’ll be making multiple layers of virtual reality where a layer of virtual reality sits within another layer. Blurring the boundary between reality (nature) and virtual reality.
A non-scientific example is the novel Enders Game where the participants think that they’re playing a virtual world but are instead playing in the real world.
What we end up is a loss of context where we don’t know which reality is virtual and which is nature.
> it will be compressed down to the more immediate experience, history will largely be abandoned, arguably culture might be abandoned
That fits with the virtual reality scenario.
3. Model making + virtual reality.
> but who rules the parallel worlds that are, into the future, what was made so and what was made not, made so by what was made not, and who might be left to consider what is displaced by what is, now, but further what might be completely vanished, vanished from consciousness, and what consciousness might be vanished. What consciousness might be banished, and the remaining converge
Are you thinking in terms of “The Matrix” movie. Where human consciousness of nature has vanished. And asking “who rules the matrix”? In the movie the answer is clear, the machines rule.
In real life, however, the answer is not so clear. It may be that nobody rules. Since the ability to rule dies as individual humans (or machines) die without passing on all their knowledge.
