Interdiscipline Synthesis Cosmology

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Interdiscipline Synthesis Cosmology

A New Natural Philosophy

Introduction

Suppose you could: describe spirit creatures using physics; resolve the dispute between evolutionists and creationists; introduce a revolutionary new natural philosophy with universal applications; explain numerous previously unexplained natural phenomena; investigate the nature of the unseen realms of existence; and fully define the Grand Unified Field Theory.

These possibilities will be allowed, someday, because the potential for human accomplishment is boundless.

Imagine a religious leader who uses empirical physics to describe the substance of spirit creatures, or a professional scientist explaining supernatural events in a quantitative manner, complete with repeatable experiments. Then consider the possibility that the debate between evolutionists and creationists will be rendered moot by the coming discovery of a subatomic particle whose proven existence implies that non-physical entities do exist, for they are simply aliens residing in alternate-dimensional spacetimes, and that the deity-like alien we call God actually used evolution as his means of creation.

“Impossible! Unthinkable! Outrageous!” many will say. Yet, these and many related prospects, which seem the most ludicrous and contradictory of suggestions today, are not only possible, but are, in fact, inevitable.

It is becoming increasingly clear to seekers of truth that both the scientific and spiritual leaders of the day are espousing incomplete descriptions of reality. Far too many of those who profess to know most of what must be known about something are guilty of picking and choosing arbitrarily what are acceptable or unacceptable notions in their discipline, which results in conclusions, hypotheses, theories, philosophies, etc., based on personal preferences rather than detached scholarship, including expositions that cite physical evidence, pure mathematics, science and technology, contemporary philosophy, metaphysical and psychic phenomena, or ancient religious texts. Consequently, we genuine seekers of truth are forced to go from one source to another in search of the combination of ideas that results in a synthesis that represents our own personal view of reality, which is then, necessarily, an individual thing. But a single source for all of the information we need is had only at the expense of brevity, such as all the books in the public library, or all the web sites that can be accessed on the Internet.

Since there is such an overwhelming amount of information in each of the disciplines that people engage in, then how can normal people absorb enough of all that is out there to enable one to devise a complete understanding of reality that results from considering all of human knowledge?

Fortunately, there is a philosophical movement that promises to solve this dilemma; one which provides the individual with the freedom to sculpt their own version of reality, yet is, essentially, based on all of the information in the world. This natural philosophy, whose main principle is interdiscipline synthesis, also promises to produce the most correct view of the universe at-large, which view, for lack of a more concise term, can be called “Interdiscipline Synthesis Cosmology”, or "ISC".

Defining ISC

The prefix “inter” can mean “mutual,” in the sense of viewing two or more things equally, while the word “discipline” can mean “a branch of knowledge,” so that the term “interdiscipline” can be interpreted to be “the viewing of two or more bodies of knowledge equally”, which is a general definition, as opposed to that for the more specific “interdisciplinary,” which means “of, relating to, or involving two or more academic disciplines,” and is reserved for use in University settings. Here, though, we choose to define the title “Interdiscipline” to be “the act of considering equally more than one body of knowledge at a time,” or simply “multiple bodies of knowledge.”

The term “synthesis” can mean “the combining of separate elements to form a coherent whole,” or “the complex whole so formed,” and implies the mixing of different types of elements. Here, we define the title “Synthesis” to be “the single though complex whole formed by combining separate fundamental elements,” or, more compactly, “the combination of.”

The term “cosmology” can mean “an explanation of the universe,” and we shall take the title “Cosmology” to be the same, and imply that the explanation must provide for a presentation of some kind of physical model.

Altogether, therefore, the term “Interdiscipline Synthesis Cosmology”, or ISC, can be taken to mean “the concept of the universe obtained from combining bodies of knowledge from several human intellectual endeavors.” That is, the term is self-explanatory. ISC denotes a description of the universe obtained by synthesizing data from different disciplines.

Because such a view depends on a number of diverse areas of investigation, then it is properly considered a natural philosophy, as opposed to a scientific theory, religious doctrine, secular philosophy, …, although it will necessarily include many theories, doctrines, and other philosophies. Thus, the complete ISC purports to summarize much of human knowledge, with the stated goal of determining the most comprehensive and accurate description of the universe. Consequently, ISC must include all scientific concepts and scenarios relating to cosmology, numerous religious notions, many metaphysical concepts, and so on, and can leave no pertinant precepts out of the whole, even if ideas within one discipline are in conflict with ideas in another. This is done by requiring that the statements comprising the elements that make up the whole of ISC are chosen as empiricisms from each discipline, determined by consensus among scholars in each discipline. The first criteria, therefore, is that a given statement of fact is considered empirical in any discipline within which it is largely held a fundamental concept. For instance, in most Christian religions, the statement “murder is bad” would be viewed as an empirical statement. Likewise, in most scientific circles, the statement “gravity is one of the fundamental forces of nature” would also be considered an empiricism. The reader can, no doubt, imagine a host of other examples, from these or other disciplines.

Empiricisms from all disciplines can then be compared to each other, and those which are in conflict are separated, though not disregarded, and distinguished as the set of all Contradictions. What is left over after all these Contradictions are removed becomes the basic collection of empirical statements that form the Core of ISC. With that, some method can be used to solve conflicts among the Contradictions, so that the number of statements in the Core can be maximized.

The result of this writer’s efforts in such respects is the conclusion that the arts are the natural synthesis of physics and spirituality. There is something all-inclusive about our artist’s ability to express themselves; to imagine complicated subjects; to create new things, and to tap into those metaphysical aspects of our humanity that cannot currently be explained by even the most advanced of scientific theories, and which theologians are still struggling to fully comprehend.

The arts can thus be viewed as a key to understanding how we may synthesize all of the seemingly contrary information in the set of Contradictions, such as the huge differences between evolutionists and creationists. And it is the philosophy behind ISC that provides the format which produces a synthesis of physics, spirituality, the arts, and other disciplines.

Ideally, given involvement by honest and open-minded contributors, and allowing for a sufficient timeframe, it is foreseeable that ISC can be used to establish a “Theory of Existence”, or ISCTE; a theory capable of describing all of nature in physical and theological terms, as well as other aspects of reality. The holy grail of physics, the Grand Unified Field Theory, would have to be covered in such a theory, as would numerous other natural philosophies, religious notions, and the like.

“But physics already involves in-depth explanations of reality,” a scientist may complain, “because it is based primarily on experimental evidence and actual, real-world observations of natural phenomena, while spirituality and the theologies of the world are based on mysticism and superstition, and are not provable.” Yet, while such assertions may be considered empirical statements in many scientific fields, this particular observation is unqualified, or non-empirical, because much of what passes for truth in physics is really someone’s interpretation of an experimental result, or the experiment is established according to initial assumptions that boil down to the experimenter’s arbitrary choice of conditions, or a common perception among researchers is founded on some historical precedent, rather than impartial investigation.

In other words, there are many statements in science that do not qualify as genuine empiricisms, since some doubt or question about the particulars exists, or a statement is viewed as true even when there is no experimental evidence to prove it, or the statement has been handed down by some figure of high regard, so that everyone feels compelled to agree.

It all reduces to a matter of consensus, of course. Yet, in many cases, the consensus is that what some person says, not what some experiment reveals, is held as the empiricism, regardless of the so-called “scientific method”.

What we humans need to break away from the past and develop new concepts about our existence is no less than the next intellectual step-up in our development as sentient creatures; a method of finding the most truthful view of our overall reality; for, without that, we are little more than a many-minded collective, groping as if blind in the midst of a terrible data maelstrom.

ISC promises to give us that method, which will then gives us valid ISC theories.

For an ISC Theory of Existence, for instance, no fundamental information set should be ignored, so that the ISCTE provides us with the ability to describe anything that can be detected by our senses, anything detectable with instrumentation, and anything else we may conceptualize, real or imaginary, having something to do with our existence.

There is also the possible benefit that other ISC theories can be devised which offer ways out of a rather large number of intellectual quagmires, since such theories, theoretically, would be capable of giving truth seekers the tools needed to solve otherwise unsolvable problems. Suppose that physicists will be given the means to delve into all of the unseen places in both the microcosm and the macrocosm that they presently cannot access. What, indeed, may exist within the smallest known distance, or beyond the farthest detectable object from Earth? And think of what wonders theologians could contemplate should they be given a reputable means by which they may extrapolate upon the nature of spirit energies, the substance of alternate-dimensional beings, the actual form of a deity, and the ultimate vision of heaven.

Have no doubt about it. ISC offers to us an entirely new intellectual plateau.

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