In a broad sort of sense, sure, but what I’m trying to do is not about redefining or reinterpreting scientific efforts. Scientific efforts are the building blocks for my understanding.
For instance that schematic, it’s plenty interesting, but incomplete. There’s no place for the various motivated characters (archetypes) that inhabit me, and the evolving relationships they have with each other, and others in the real world where interactions impinge upon and evolve those relationships as the years and decades add up. Although it may speak to some of the mechanisms of those interactions.
Mine is a more personal, humanistic, search for clarity about the "Who I Am?” questions. It’s about me, and the process that has established my personal relationship with myself and the information that comes my way. My sorting, filtering, comparing, and particularly how I weight the information being fed to me and how it’s woven into the tapestry of my existing understanding.
Stuff that directly impacts my everyday, it’s important, but left out of said study. That doesn’t diminish the paper, taken within the unnaturally narrow confines of the academic exercise it set for itself - but it does not speak to my key concerns.
I’m about the inner recognition of my minds connects with the outside reality, that’s the totally mind boggling fascinating thing.
At 67, I’ve become disillusioned with scientific super egos and their various money hungry searches for the ultimate answer to this or that. To my eyes and sensibilities, after a life time of absorbing the unfolding world I’m immersed in, it seems a fools errand. Then I look around at a world saturated with lost and clueless souls in all their various manifestations, all looking for some mysterious answer that promises to clarify everything. It’s sad.
I’m all about coming to terms with the various characters, emotions, impulses and priorities bouncing around within my mind and trying to get at my body’s attention.
I’ve absorbed into my being the notion that there is no ultimate truth.
There is honesty and fidelity to truthfully recording and disseminating information,
but there’s no ultimate truth.
Because there is no ultimate point of reference within the universe or Earth’s biosphere that created us. (Plus there’s always more to learn, which will inevitably adjust current understanding.)
Although for us humans I believe we have a benchmark that can help us better decipher our place in the world - namely, in recognizing the divide between the constellation of thoughts flowing through our mind and biological, physical matter out of which we were created. The cascading implications, consequences, and awareness this simple formula offers is impressive.