You're here and you're asking so in some small way it has. — 180 Proof
With respect to the natural/physical sciences, like science and religion, — 3017amen
Can Religion offer any pathway to understanding the nature of reality and the phenomena of the experiences associated with self-awareness/consciousness? — 3017amen
On the other hand if we take religion as belonging to ethnoscience - sometimes called "folk science" a term which I don't like much - then we could gain some illustrations of how we look at the world in an intuitive manner. — Manuel
should philosophy and [physical] science work together to help better understand consciousness? — 3017amen
Questions to explore:
1. Can the nature of the curious mind be explained throughout history relative to sociology (norms, beliefs, rituals, practices)?
2. Does curiosity in itself confer any biological advantages?
3. Can Religion offer any pathway to understanding the nature of reality and the phenomena of the experiences associated with self-awareness/consciousness?
4. Can cognitive science study the Religious experience in order to gain insight on the phenomenon of the conscious mind (what is self-awareness)? — 3017amen
You are forcing the obvious and passe into a discussion. — god must be atheist
I am attracted to the idea of a world w here everything is conscious and emotional. I think it would be an improvement on the world we currently have. Any thoughts?" — 3017amen
My own interpretation was basic intentionality ala Schop's the World as W&R/metaphysical will. Or, in my studies, something like what theoretical physicist Paul Davies has mentioned-Panentheism... . — 3017amen
As an aside, I think these natural impulses of wonderment in itself (coming from our stream of consciousness), are consistent with other intrinsic or innate abstract apperceptions about how the world works (abstract mathematical structures) which we find useful. — 3017amen
With respect to the natural/physical sciences, like science and religion, — 3017amen
Can Religion offer any pathway to understanding the nature of reality and the phenomena of the experiences associated with self-awareness/consciousness? — 3017amen
mathematics is called the "Queen of the Sciences" — jgill
Can Religion offer any pathway to understanding the nature of reality and the phenomena of the experiences associated with self-awareness/consciousness? — 3017amen
Your categorisation is incorrect. There's physical sciences - physics and chemistry - life sciences - biology, environmental science, evolution - geological sciences, and social sciences - sociology, economics. — Wayfarer
And that's most of the difference as history & experience show ...People are acting out, not acting. — Wayfarer
I would imagine that you chose the words natural science, with a view to thinking about the empirical methods of investigating. Of course, this is important as opposed to just introspection, but even if empirical methods are used, there is so many beyond that, in the whole interpretation of the findings. My own view is that the exploration of religion is one which may be best approached in a multidisciplinary way. — Jack Cummins
Fundamentalists Christians routinely fight to have yoga banned from schools on the basis that it's a foreign religion, but Indians say it's a form of therapeutic discipline and not a religion at all. Good luck sorting that out. — Wayfarer
Non-living matter is not conscious or emotional in the senses we normally use for those words. For that reason, I don't know what it means to attribute consciousness or emotion to something that is not alive. Consciousness and emotion are behavioral characteristics. I don't think rocks are self-aware. What behavioral evidence shows they are. — T Clark
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