Have you read any of Rupert Sheldrake's books? I picked up The Science Delusion from the library...

Have you read any of Rupert Sheldrake's books? I picked up The Science Delusion from the library. Pretty interesting stuff. I just ordered another one of his books off Amazon.

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What is this about? Because if it's about scientism, it may be good.

Not OP but if I remember correctly he talks about the flaws and fallacies of science and scientific bases which are fragile, like speed of light being constant (it's not)

From Google books:
The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality. The fundamental questions are answered, leaving only the details to be filled in. In this book, Dr Rupert Sheldrake, one of the world's most innovative scientists, shows that science is being constricted by assumptions that have hardened into dogmas. The sciences would be better off without them: freer, more interesting, and more fun.
According to the dogmas of science, all reality is material or physical. The world is a machine, made up of dead matter. Nature is purposeless. Consciousness is nothing but the physical activity of the brain. Free will is an illusion. God exists only as an idea in human minds, imprisoned within our skulls.

But should science be a belief-system, or a method of enquiry? Sheldrake shows that the materialist ideology is moribund; under its sway, increasingly expensive research is reaping diminishing returns.

In the skeptical spirit of true science, Sheldrake turns the ten fundamental dogmas of materialism into exciting questions, and shows how all of them open up startling new possibilities.

The Science Delusion will radically change your view of what is possible. and give you new hope for the world

How long is it? Where do I get an ebook?
I will go to university starting with 1st September to study physics. Might as well fuck up all my beliefs.

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Looks like the work of a butthurt narcissist.

okay, nevermind, I ain't reading that. I'm not educated enough to understand his view.

>like speed of light being constant (it's not)
Dimensional constants have no physical meaning and amount only to the choice of measurement units. Thus speed of light can be, and usually is, chosen to be strictly 1. Anyway, a theory is only a theory, but in case of Special Relativity, for example, it's a theory that works remarkably well.
>The science delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality.
Not a single scientist would believe that. What I, as a scientist, honestly believe, is that modern scientific theories are adequate for describing everything directly around us, that including humans. In other words, we may not concern ourselves with the _true_ laws of nature that may underlie the Standard Model and such, but if we take just the Standard Model supplied with General Relativity and solve its equations on a very-very big computer, among the possible solutions of these equations there will be one describing humans and human behaviour (and similarly, nature and society) with enough precision to be undistinguishable. Does Sheldrake address that?

See, here's the thing. I'm fine with science...doing science. There's nothing wrong with, according to science, religion being confined to our heads. Because it is -- according to science. The problem is that people think science is magically more accurate than faith, despite them both operating in totally irreconcilable (and incomparable) ways.