Unexamined Materialism
Our mental map or our picture of the world is like the glasses we wear as we look at ourselves and our world. Wittgenstein says a picture can hold us captive. We live in a cross-pressured society post Enlightenment. The rebirth of reason with enlightenment of science reframed everything in our western world. What to do with demons and miracles? They must have been mental illness and well timed natural events. The picture we inhabit is one which sees only a natural order, read mechanistic one, the great chain of being of billiard balls and gene mutations. But now that deconstruction has spread into the wider culture, the reasoners themselves are called into question. This has caused some of us to go about a re-enchantment. The same person who cannot believe in God might accept other spirits and hang talismans from their rearview mirror. What I don't think we hold together or realize is that the SCIENCE picture is not a complete one and I don't think it ever will be. Perhaps i...