I’ve often thought similarly about the Ptolemy vs Copernicus view of the solar system. Calculations require a frame of reference, obviously our planets revolve around the sun and yet our experience of this is almost irrelevant to the model used. science and math function only by using a particular frame of reference and once we found a new frame of reference which was technically more correct for physics we somehow equated that with proof that all prior metaphysical speculation was now irrelevant or stupid. But in a sense as beings on planet earth watching the sun rise and set and seemingly rotate round the earth how much does the god eyed point of view of standing on the sun make a difference for experience? Point is not to question science but if there is truly a reason to abandon teleology, Aristotle or neo-platonism or Christian metaphysics just because it was developed from a living on this earth point of view? mathematics as a language can’t even comprehend a three body problem and how can a ruler or brain scan measure the experience of the quality of a subset.
I’ve often thought similarly about the Ptolemy vs Copernicus view of the solar system. Calculations require a frame of reference, obviously our planets revolve around the sun and yet our experience of this is almost irrelevant to the model used. science and math function only by using a particular frame of reference and once we found a new frame of reference which was technically more correct for physics we somehow equated that with proof that all prior metaphysical speculation was now irrelevant or stupid. But in a sense as beings on planet earth watching the sun rise and set and seemingly rotate round the earth how much does the god eyed point of view of standing on the sun make a difference for experience? Point is not to question science but if there is truly a reason to abandon teleology, Aristotle or neo-platonism or Christian metaphysics just because it was developed from a living on this earth point of view? mathematics as a language can’t even comprehend a three body problem and how can a ruler or brain scan measure the experience of the quality of a subset.
*sunset