1. Understanding Ourselves Through the Sciences
Raymond Kurzweil also believes immortality to be possible through advances in biotechnology, as he has accurately predicted the enormous advancements in modern day technology and predicts that biotechnology will be one of the major components in achieving this. ...
The emphasis is put on the circumstances that affect human behaviour, in order to predict our reaction. ... The idea of this existence of something similar between generations brings in a thought that there is something in common for all the human beings, and therefore some classification can be created to analyse and predict our behaviour. ...
The merit which made it a classic book is its astonishing ability to predict. ... Shelley predicts a dangerous circumstance through women's sensitivity and acuteness, which scientism, which means too much reliance on science to transform the human interests and environment, enables humans to boundlessly idolize it, becoming indefeasible. ...
Swami Jitatmananda points out that nearly a century ago Swami Vivekananda predicted that "the conclusions of modern Science are the very conclusions of the holistic philosophy of Vedanta known as advaita formulated in India nearly three thousand years ago. ...
"Modern science is a body of laws based on systematically assembled knowledge capable of predicting phenomena not observed when the laws are formulated".( text book p19) Science is an intellectual activity carried on by humans that is designed to discover information about the natural world in which humans live and to discover the ways in which this information can be organized into meaningful patterns. ...
The word science has its origins in the Latin verb scire meaning "to know". Although "one can know through tenacity, authority, faith, intuition or science" (Malhorta, 1994), "science is looked upon as proven knowledge knowledge based on the facts of experience acquired by observation and experiment...
