Why Materialism is a Flatlander Philosophy

“The only reality is mind and observations but observations are not of things. To see the Universe as it really is, we must abandon our tendency to conceptualize observations as things. The Universe is immaterial, mental and spiritual. Live and enjoy!” — Richard Conn Henry

While synthetizing science and metaphysics, evolutionary cybernetics is a new field of study that predicts a variety of aspects of our civilizational development, notably a phase transition of uploaded cyberhumanity by becoming one Global Mind. In my online interactions, I’m oftentimes confronted with die-hard materialists or otherwise ardent empiricists who demand “hard evidence” for my claims as an evolutionary cyberneticist, so here’s a brief discourse on intellectual progress of our species.

From quantum gravity to dark matter, string theory to parallel universes, many scientific theories and hypotheses lack hard evidence. “Fashion” in science, i.e., a scientific narrative in vogue, favors a certain paradigm which later unavoidably is swept under the rug. Current science can only explain a meager 4% of the visible universe, the rest is conveniently labeled the “Dark Universe” — dark matter and dark energy. All of it is seemingly conjectural, it’s all an elaborate abstraction in the minds of an intelligent species indigenous to this planet. In fact, visible reality is just a tiny patch of metaphysical reality, a topic I’d rather save for another day.

As John Locke once said: “New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.” If you ask me, ‘scientism’, obsessive preoccupation with the scientific method, the worldview that empirical science represents the only authority, is but inverse religion. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not against science, but I’m adamantly against scientism. I love science, but I feel sorry for its dogmatic fanatics.

Science starts with philosophy and ends with philosophy. By that I mean, scientists start with hypotheses and then try to prove them empirically or theoretically. When done so, the final results are still open to…