Okay, so it’s true of most everyone. They just get to throw so much more ego behind it, (that self importance) . I’m pretty tired so will come back tomorrow to see how much damage I’ve done and clean up if necessary. 
A description of Thomas Kuhn’s concept of the paradigm shift, as described in his 1962 book “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”. No expense was spared in the making of this video.
Written, directed, edited and narrated by Nathan Radke (nradke)
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One way to look at scientific progress is to see the world as a collection of facts represented by these pom-poms.
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We may observe these facts and add these observations to those we have already made and so it appears that progress is a process of addition.
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However the philosopher Thomas Kuhn argued that observations do not exist in a vacuum instead they are contained within a theory.
Here is a perfect example of what I’m talking about with ‘getting lost within one’s own mindscape.’ Kuhn hasn’t taken a moment to consider the Physical Reality beyond the scope of his ability to think about it. It’s all about our intellectual capacity and never a moments thought for the physical realm out there simply IS, while remaining outside of our ability to fully understand it.
Like what’s wrong with wanting to bring it back to an Evolutionary perspective?
Consciousness didn’t begin with human bellybutton gazing!
There’s better than a billion years of cell evolution before cells started organizing and then over a half billion years of ever more complex creatures evolving out of simpler forms. Each of them living in dynamic environments that required observation, prowess, leaps of faith, success and failure and time carried the pageant ever forward.
Trying to develop a theory of consciousness based on modern humans is a farce, it’s anthropology and not a study of creature consciousness.
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The theory is a story which explains the meaning or significance of the observations. The dominant theory in a discipline at any given time is called a paradigm and the observations are placed within that paradigm.
Sure human stories are ‘theories’ and they’re set within specific paradigms, what’s being left out is recognizing the dynamics between object, observer, and the perceived.
Each animal is a perceiving instrument of its own variety, each will perceive different aspects of the same physical world, as to their needs.
Human are another step up the complexity pageant, our magic grew out of the mammalian brain, and ignoring* that reality has totally warped humanity’s general mindset in very destructive ways.
(as in actually incorporating the intellectual philosophical model of the evolutionary process that was required for the modern human mind and consciousness to appear.)
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A problem occurs when observations are made that do not fit into the paradigm.
Sure, a fancy way of saying new information modifies what you know. We then confirm or refute information based on our needs and knowledge, all of which is intimately tied to what kind of body “we” inhabit. “We” as in thoughts, our mind if you will.
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A crisis is reached when too many of these new observations do not fit into the old paradigm.
The crisis is reached by ignoring our Evolutionary roots, and never climbing out of our heads to check out our bodies and how related we are to everything else, and how our welfare depends on their welfare.
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A new theory is then proposed if this new theory contains the observations better than the old theory then there is a paradigm shift the old theory is then destroyed and replaced by the new theory.
Don’t get me wrong, I love learning about Earth and me and the universe beyond, I love science!
It’s our stupid addiction to feeding our egos and careers before all other concerns, that is too much. And ultimately will be fatal to all we hold dear.
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To Thomas Kuhn scientific progress is as much about destruction specifically the destruction of the old’ theory or paradigm as it is about the addition of new observations and even this new paradigm will only last until it suffers its own crisis
A child of his age, drill and blast.
Thomas Samuel Kuhn (July 18, 1922 – June 17, 1996) was an American philosopher of science whose 1962 book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was influential in both academic and popular circles, introducing the term paradigm shift, which has since become an English-language idiom.
Kuhn made several claims concerning the progress of scientific knowledge: that scientific fields undergo periodic “paradigm shifts” rather than solely progressing in a linear and continuous way, and that these paradigm shifts open up new approaches to understanding what scientists would never have considered valid before; and that the notion of scientific truth, at any given moment, cannot be established solely by objective criteria but is defined by a consensus of a scientific community.
Competing paradigms are frequently incommensurable; that is, they are competing and irreconcilable accounts of reality. Thus, our comprehension of science can never rely wholly upon “objectivity” alone. Science must account for subjective perspectives as well, since all objective conclusions are ultimately founded upon the subjective conditioning/worldview of its researchers and participants.
) flowing down the cascade of time.
