{"id":23119,"date":"2012-11-19T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=23119"},"modified":"2012-11-26T10:57:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-26T10:57:30","slug":"knowledge-processes-neglected-by-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/11\/knowledge-processes-neglected-by-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Knowledge Processes Neglected by Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Insights from the Crisis of Science and Belief <\/em><\/p>\n<h3>Introduction<\/h3>\n<p>Systemic knowledge processes neglected by science: What are the dimensions of knowledge and information of which science is itself uncritical or unconscious? Although presented as a checklist below (minimally ordered), the following are variously interrelated from a systemic perspective which could merit clarification (cf. Map of Systemic Interdependencies None Dares Name: 12-fold challenge of global life and death, 2011). A significant proportion of these additional factors would seem to be partially or completely ignored in Sheldrake&#8217;s remarkable critique:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Unquestioning preoccupation with explanation<\/li>\n<li>Undue preoccupation with validation<\/li>\n<li>Selective appreciation of creative imagination<\/li>\n<li>Unexamined preoccupation with professional reputation and recognition<\/li>\n<li>Deprecation of alternatives and anomalies challenging conventional models<\/li>\n<li>Methodological dependence on questionable engagement with society<\/li>\n<li>Uncritical belief of science in the appropriateness of its own process<\/li>\n<li>Institutionalized incoherence and disagreement<\/li>\n<li>Ill-considered recognition of constraints and opportunities of an information-based society<\/li>\n<li>Self-referential inadequacy of &#8220;metascience&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is the arguments relating to each of these which are explored in the text.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Annex to <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2012\/11\/being-a-poem-in-the-making\/\" ><em>Being a Poem in the Making: Engendering a Multiverse through Musing<\/em><\/a><\/em><em> (2012), where <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laetusinpraesens.org\/musings\/muverse.php#refs\" >references<\/a> are listed)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.laetusinpraesens.org\/musings\/muversex.php\" >PLEASE CONTINUE READING THE PAPER IN THE ORIGINAL \u2013 laetusinpraesens.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insights from the Crisis of Science and Belief &#8211; Systemic knowledge processes neglected by science: What are the dimensions of knowledge and information of which science is itself uncritical or unconscious?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,62,145],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transcend-members","category-media","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}