Space and Counterspace – by Nick Thomas – Ch.1 – Part 1 – Open Mindedness

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Chapter 1. – Introduction

Nick Thomas starts with an observation that human beings have striven to understand the wonders of nature by way of three approaches:

• Art
• Science
• Religion

Each he believes to be valid but also one-sided:

• A work of art does not explain
• A scientific explanation misses the qualitative elements
• A religious approach is too ‘broad brush’ – it raises more questions than it answers.

But as far as Nick Thomas is concerned ‘all three approaches are necessary if justice is to be done to our genuinely human experience ‘.

• An artist is least affected by preconceptions
• Religion starts with scientifically inaccessible dogmatic premises
• Science blinkers its approach to a narrow physical and material way of thinking.

They are all united by ‘the spirit of human beings to strive for understanding’. Nick Thomas, in this second paragraph, demands that we should be open, open, open! We should divorce ourselves from dogma and preconceptions – nature does not care for them.

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Continued: https://rethinkingsubstance.wordpress.com/2020/02/14/space-and-counterspace-by-nick-thomas-ch-1-part-2-qualia/

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