Scientific Positivism: A New Philosophy

Reading and learning is an example of an extremely powerful, human-invented process. Reading translates real-world information through sensory input into memorized information, which can be reproduced and improved through repetition, reflection and actualization. We've refined this process over millennia both by creating more detailed languages, and by improving the way we record our information. Ancient writings are scrawled onto effortfully assembled books, fragile scrolls and behemoth stone monuments. Books became smaller, were eventually made of easeir materials and produced by efficient. Once books became wide-spread we experienced a massive paradigm shift - a rate of unprecedented social and technological change. We have hit many similar paradigm shifts since then. Just as we made obsolete the blank knowledge bestowed by our biological inheritance with literature, great and modern libraries have recently become effectively obsolete thanks to computerized tablet computers, indeed in which a library of infinite size becomes compressed into one or two square feet and reduced to a pound in weight. What can we do with the time, space and energy we can save using this technology?

Every technology translates some less efficient process into a new, more efficient process. By reducing the time it takes to learn, we increase the amount of time we have to do things, thus increasing our own opportunity to grow neurologically by way of more memorized experiences. We become smarter, more actualized creatures.

The primary principles of modern business are often built on the relatively new idea that consequences are only ever just the affect of human choices and actions, and that the success of an action is determined entirely by and proportionately to competence and ambition. Never has this belief been held in full before the authorities of old cultures. Instead, primary authorities accepted religious explanations for human nature and limitations which were varied and based on less refined reasoning. They made their decisions with their culturally-religious line thought and the testaments to those ancient ways of thought are a few scattered monuments: Stonehenge, The Coliseum, the Leaning Tower of Piza, Et. Al.

The testament to the accurate interpretation of businesses and modern governments are hundreds of cities of glass and silver populated by seven billion humans, each aware of what the whole structure is in some vague degree and capable of making a decision within the structure using some kind of specialization. They have other legacies as well, those of their errors, the smoke floating atop our modern wonders and the dwindling resources underneath our feet.

If economists and modern government have left a legacy this large upon the world while acting as effortful prime-mover, than science must have its legacy equally respected: our scientific process is the brain behind business. Business has taken due note of the competence of the scientific method and has invested a great deal in capitalizing the scientific process, all while endearing the public and scientists alike in believing that business and political administration is the most important component in our current state of being. They become solidly powerful both with such social roots, and by demonstrating to the rebelliously spirited an illusory reality where science and business are inseparable, that to mistrust one means mistrust the other.

I believe the scientific method has created a unique community, however, which can accomplish more than those who have achieved power today. By way of efficiently - and not economically - organizing the internet, we can facilitate any amount of education with the use of very few resource. This has linked a growing number of people to one another and given them the opportunity to transfer nearly unlimited amounts of information to each other which can be stored and read on cheap, portable repositories. Neither law nor the structure of the market truly appreciates how a device like this allows people evaluation and discuss human nature. They have paid more heeds to market statistics and antiquated definitions of what it means to want, to be happy and to be satisfied. Neither government nor business have caught up with science, and as new philosophers begin to use science and the internet-database to create new lines of thought and reasoning I believe we come closer and closer to an image of what it means to be a logical, healthy human.