Monday, November 7, 2011

Limits of Science, Math, and Technology

In recent years since the scientific revolution, our epistemology and ways of deducting our perceptions or reasons for doing metaphysics has radically shifted. Now, we are experiencing an increase in "Futurist" epistemology of life. Meaning, technology has and is becoming the surest principle from which we can draw truths or truism. In light of this, all of our modern accomplishments has become the preface on which science, math, and technology can glory or justify its military advancement in our culture. However, its limits are obvious or else we have chosen to be oblivious of it. Humanity is in jeopardy regarding its communal life-style, its ability to research independently from any accelerated aid (tech), its human emotional experience, and its ability to solve problems are now dependent on our ability to maneuver technological advances. In recent political deliberations, politicians are calling for a president who would be able to calculate and solve problems from this premise. Also, in recent event a French airline was destroyed because its captain could not handle the technological nuance before him. Or following president Obama's argument on global competition: "to compete with the world we have to buckle up and teach our kids science, math, and technology". Science, math, and technology are not evil or monsters. However, culturally, politically, and economically we have to acknowledge it's limits. In conclusion, math and scientific calculation gives us knowledge to the function of things, but fall short of providing us with the nature of things. Scientific and technological epistemology therefore, are becoming substitution for human self-knowledge stealing our humanity.