The universal principle of oneness in philosophy and metaphysics reverberates in quantum theory and in our daily lives as a visceral 'singularity' or framework for holism. The human mind and the compartmentalized skills and disciplines used to define and experience (through cognition) is fractured, disconnected and alien to the emerging patterns nature is expressing through our transformations and paradigm shifts. Science and all other disciplines are not in touch with LIFE is where we are. Building on this will not create the framework for where science needs to go and is going. Divergence is the dynamic we are creating by continuing on the present path. Life is giving science all the natural clues it is not resonating to. Becoming true to life as it is is the code to deciphering what consciousness is and its role in the attainment of 'singularity'. Until we do this, the 19th century confrontation between science and life, that science is responsible being NOW-HERE, as conditioned as we are, is going NOWHERE.
"[T]he task of science is the recognition of causes, and only when we recognize the causes of things do we say that we know them." --Proclus
Herb, what is your definition of science?
[A]-Any method of arriving at the understanding of relationships with not just causes but effects of polarities etc that can describe or define the fields of information 'discovered; in natural phenomena and human simulations of processes that can elevate human consciousness, improve life and establish balance and harmony in a holistic and meaningful way that resonates with its complements in ART, SCIENCE and DESIGN at their intersection. Nature is the blueprint. The Philosophical or/and metaphysical principles of Body, Mind and Spirit are at the core of all its expressions and in balance of natural law that must connect with the continuity of principles that are evolving as that understanding expands. To be distilled to it finest expressions for the good of all. A 5 year old should be able to understand science, art and design. Science in isolation is not the solution.
From the traditional point of view (see, for example, the works by Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy on the theory of art), science is art. The purpose of science is clear: scīre means to know. The purpose of science is not to improve life. Life . . . what do you mean by life? Life as a phenomenon, or life as a life of an individual living being? And, regardless of what you mean by life, why do you think that life needs any improvement? And why do you think science is necessary for that? From the Platonic point of view, the soul (mind) cannot be liberated by knowledge (reasoning, dianoia) alone. The soul can only be liberated when its two lower 'parts' (doxa=ignorance, in contact with the senses; and dianoia) are united with the intellectual 'part' (noesis), which can communicate with the divine. Noesis transcends reasoning, just as wisdom transcends knowledge. One does not need to have any scientific knowledge at all to attain sagehood.
Life is the entire spectrum of consciousness; cosmic, super and normal awareness along with all other physical, psychological and spiritual or energy related phenomena. It is the zero point (singularity commonly known as oneness) field from which the dielectric, magnetic and electric reversible polarity is harmonized.
Life is one of the modes of existence (Skr. sat). i am not sure your definition distinguishes life from other modes of existence. And then there is non-existence (Skr. asat) . . .
From biological point of view, (Gr. βίος means life), all living things share a set of characteristics; none of the characteristics is unique to living things but the set is. Koshland defines seven such characteristics (pillars) of life: program, improvisation, compartmentalization, energy, regeneration, adaptability, and seclusion (PICERAS).
Article Special essay. The seven pillars of life
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As for "effects" (viz. your first answer), they are, according to Aristotelian logic, nothing other than the final causes. And the only way to understand the final causes is to understand their first (formal), material, and efficient causes.
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