[August 1999 journal entry]
I recently read Chalmers’ What Is This Thing Called Science? He commented at length about how scientists who fall out of (call into question) their received scientific paradigm go to (or create) another paradigm. Re the ‘non-religious’ approach to spirituality and ethics I am following – I have come to realize that there will be no fixed (settled) alternative paradigm to ‘religious’ paradigms. ‘Fixed’ is a trait of ‘religion’. Instead, each day I have to configure a context within which to live/act. The configuration may correspond closely with the previous day’s context within which I lived and made decisions. But it is nonetheless in essential ways a fresh configuration.
I recently read Chalmers’ What Is This Thing Called Science? He commented at length about how scientists who fall out of (call into question) their received scientific paradigm go to (or create) another paradigm. Re the ‘non-religious’ approach to spirituality and ethics I am following – I have come to realize that there will be no fixed (settled) alternative paradigm to ‘religious’ paradigms. ‘Fixed’ is a trait of ‘religion’. Instead, each day I have to configure a context within which to live/act. The configuration may correspond closely with the previous day’s context within which I lived and made decisions. But it is nonetheless in essential ways a fresh configuration.
