"I know of no scientific limitations you speak of."
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Science is a system used for observing and organizing information which can stand up to repeated testing by independent observers. Science is based on theoretical frameworks which are open to falsification as new evidence comes available. Some areas of science are founded less on absolute proofs than others, psychology compared to mathematics for example. Absolute certainty, in fact, is avoided by the system. Rare things and chaotic influences are considered as valid as systematic rules in explaining some circumstances.
All things knowable in the temporal universe are knowable by the extent to which they are separated from everything else. Thought, awareness, conscience, experience, philosophy, meditation, social theory, political theory, theology etc are not science.
The line of demarcation between that which is science and that which is not is sometimes blurry since, for example, a speculation from philosophy is often a spring board for scientific enquiry. There are many things which are real yet not testable by science ... the unique experience I am having at this moment, which has been influenced by the complexity of every moment of my life leading up to this moment, is not testable. My experience is self evident yet, if you were to say prove it (scientifically), science could not provide proof for the wholeness of my experience. And yet it is far more real to me than all the libraries of science texts in the world. |
