I am currently researching and writing an essay that I have tentatively titled "Toward A Consilient Ontology". The purpose of the essay is to address a serious impediment to consilience: physicalism.
I take the position that physicalism cannot serve as a foundation for the unification of knowledge because there are too many serious outstanding explanatory issues in philosophy, physics, psychology, and medicine:
1. Consciousness/free will goes unexplained;
2. There is no consensus around quantum mechanics/quantum gravity.
3. The only explanation for precognition is retro causation - a concept that I view as irrational.
4. The placebo effec…
I am currently researching and writing an essay that I have tentatively titled "Toward A Consilient Ontology". The purpose of the essay is to address a serious impediment to consilience: physicalism.
I take the position that physicalism cannot serve as a foundation for the unification of knowledge because there are too many serious outstanding explanatory issues in philosophy, physics, psychology, and medicine:
1. Consciousness/free will goes unexplained;
2. There is no consensus around quantum mechanics/quantum gravity.
3. The only explanation for precognition is retro causation - a concept that I view as irrational.
4. The placebo effect is well established but unexplained.
My approach is to start with scientific data and design a new ontology that addresses the aforementioned explanatory challenges and which gives rise to realistic falsification criteria.
