{"id":1183,"date":"2020-05-06T20:51:47","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T03:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetqualia.com\/?p=1183"},"modified":"2020-05-06T20:51:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T03:51:47","slug":"science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/06\/science\/","title":{"rendered":"Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Science &#8212; more properly,&nbsp;<em>scientific method<\/em>&nbsp;&#8212; is a ritual; just like magic and religion, its &#8220;central aim,&#8221; as Susanne K. Langer writes, &#8220;is to symbolize a Presence, to aid in the formulation of a religious universe.&#8221; It is, simply and fundamentally, an attempt to express the unknown. The ability of science to control nature is just a fortunate (?) by-product of its main purpose.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Art, too, is about expression. Perhaps we are more familiar with the conscious ritualing of an artist, since so many artists seem to be performers as well as creators. The artistic impulse is a need which neither the artist nor anybody else can explain, an intuition demanding expression lest life seem (feel), well,&nbsp;<em>unlived<\/em>. The patriot, too, who risks all for liberty and natural rights, is another who is compelled to action, and to a powerful ritualing, by a vision of a distant ideal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Genius is motivated by imperfections in the order of things. Visionaries and prophets have a sense, or an intuition, of something beyond the known traditions of their time. Such souls devote their lives to the expression of something ineffable.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science &#8212; more properly,&nbsp;scientific method&nbsp;&#8212; is a ritual; just like magic and religion, its &#8220;central aim,&#8221; as Susanne K. Langer writes, &#8220;is to symbolize a Presence, to aid in the formulation of a religious universe.&#8221; It is, simply and fundamentally, an attempt to express the unknown. The ability of science<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/06\/science\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[283,293,303,301,302,291],"class_list":["entry","author-qualiens","post-1183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-qualiasphere","tag-addiction-and-recovery","tag-deep-ecology","tag-dopamine-fast","tag-green-new-deal","tag-spiritual-crisis","tag-spiritual-ecology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/planetqualia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/frankenstein.png?fit=174%2C164&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s9QShd-science","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1198,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183\/revisions\/1198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetqualia.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}