A very funny article, and somehow spot-on, Clem, good job. It is All Souls Day, so I think it is good to respond to you today. Do we have souls? Yes, we do.
The problem with scientists is that they like to point a finger at something and that something then really being there. The scientific approach is not only to have a single finger point at something, but to have that process be repeatable by another scientist anywhere else in the world, also pointing his or her finger at the same reality.
Scientists are not good at figuring out broad-spectrum realities all that much. They can't point their one finger at it and then be done with it. In other words, scientists limit themselves. Through that limiting approach, they were able to discover many good pieces of information, most but-not-all very helpful to mankind.
The soul being real cannot be pointed out with a single finger. It needs to be understood. You mentioned already how Gestalt is a good approach to understand this. I would translate the word with Figuring because it is a larger broad-spectrum outcome creating a figure, while we also need to figure it out because the details are not immediately obvious.
A very good example (I think so at least) is mixing red, blue and yellow paint and then ending up with a gray outcome. Gray is a good example because we ended up with something different from red, blue and yellow, it existed intrinsically already within red, blue, and yellow, and we can discuss for hours and hours whether gray is a color or not.
For sure, no one will deny that gray exists. Here, we can indeed point our fingers toward it, and have someone else do the same anywhere in the world. That makes it a good example. Yet plenty of people will say that gray is not a color, and I wouldn't be surprised if scientists were found disproportionally among them. We found our souls if the example is understood correctly by the reader.
The name to mention is Spinoza. Some 400 years ago he had the leak above water. He declared God to be real, if indeed we worked with this reality in the abstract. Einstein did something similar: he said that if we bump into a scientific problem to look at it all from one level higher.
Scientists follow Einstein’s advice quite successfully, and when we move to the biggest level of all in science, scientists shoot themselves nevertheless in the foot. They cannot go to the highest one level up because it is the abstract level and science cannot go there. Ergo, scientists are the problem in figuring out the largest level. They are unable to point their single finger at the whole of existence because scientists excel at pointing their fingers at single things.
Will they deny that souls exist? They can try. But all they will be able to achieve is that they can’t prove that souls do exist. Science is limited.
'The Problem With Scientists'
https://fred-rick.medium.com/the-problem-with-scientists-a825e71ce663
Thank you, Clem, for your very good article that I definitively enjoyed. Good job!
