Enlightened
Humanism
In general, Non-Sacred Scientism
has a
humanistic yen. After all, Non-Sacreds
are humans and they grasp that to do their research and experimentation
that
some
level of civility must be maintained. A certain
level of
Enlightened Humanism finds a home
among Non-Sacreds. If humans are to live together, a
certain ethical code of behavior can be reasonably
negotiated, even
legislated.
Expanding human control through expanding knowledge,
science and technological know-how represents the only guarantee
for the development of a secure and enlightened world. The problem is not "man
has become too arrogant" but that our culture lacks conviction
in the possibility of making progress through encouraging experimentation,
enterprise and risk-taking. In contrast to the current mood of exaggerating
limits and denouncing any progressive proposal as "unsustainable," it is important to challenge the culture of restraint.
An enlightened society is by definition
open to new possibilities and the testing
out of ideas. (Frank
Fruedi)
The Non-Sacreds reject our Earthfolk claim
that
all knowing is human knowing, and that all knowing
is making present the specifics of the peculiar relationship that
defines a given sensory and sensual experience. For them, for example,
machine knowing is not human knowing; it is a difference of kind,
not just degree as it is for us Earthfolk.
For Non-Sacreds humans can control their
emotions to the
point where
there is negligible impact on an experiment
or fact. They would apply Occam’s
Razor to our Earthfolk claim for human knowing and find
that it is not the simplest explanation,
and so not give it weight or priority. Consequently,
they start with sensory data and input and deduce/induce
to discern/discover the reality and character of the material
basis for all existence.
Hypothetically, some
Non-Sacreds
tolerate
and grant Sacred Scientism the possibility
that someday scientists will discern a non-material aspect
of existence,
but agree that such a highly hypothetical possibility is a
long way off.
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