Philosophy and Science:We owe a respect
Some times I wonder what we see , what we analyse and what we predict really true in real. Or are they somekind of imaginations that ourmind produces ? It may certainly be true but we do not know. The role of brain science in the modern fields of physics and mathematics are crucial and form an initial line of innovation. But the 21st century , have brought the modernization in computational technologies that are making us use less of brain psychology.
Perhaps the origin of philosophy originated long before the original fundamental ways of doing physics came into existence. In periods before Christ or even long before this , philosophy was science. What people rationally thought would lead to formulation of ideas and these ideas would later turn out into science riddles. The great Plato, Archimedes and many others used to rationalise science based on philosophy.
Obviously philosophy did not gave rise to ideas itself but presented a challenge for a quest to find the inner workings of somethings or some events that would lead to science, mathematics and engineering. Science would thus generally start with philosophical ideas , then later turn into science or maths itself.Take example of seeing moon at nightsky. How would people in the B.C periods take it. Obviously they did not have strong telescopes but they would have philosophical ideas about the moon and the most rational sounding philosophy would be the scientific explanation for any dyanamics related to the moon.
I must remember a poem by William Shakespeare now ‘ Child is the father of the man’. It has been the same story since along the dawn of time for human kind. With the passing of time we have been more physically and mathematically intuitive and our ideas became more theoretical and experimental than philosophical. No matter how much we may claim theoretical ideas as a product of philosophical ideas, but we have to learn the difference.
Most importantly we can realise that philosophy might not need clarification but the theoretical science has to go through experimental match fit processes to stay in the market. However philosophy may still stand out without the help of others. Take example of what I write today, My philosophy will need nothing to verify whether it is true or False but if I am saying something scientifically theoretical i will need datas, and evidences to make them worth.
Well lately I attended a 3 minute thesis presentation in one of the Universities where my mind stuck to something. All I have been writing above would be different. The way of research and producing ideas are totally different today. What happens today is we start looking at datas first, we analyse them and we put a model to describe the data. We are here trying to look at ideas that are already there and we are trying to research for datas that would fit to our prediction of models. Now we do not look at the moon and say why, but rather we look at our computer simulations and make think our brain that the datas must fit into a model or a next model has to be developed. The philosophy is gone.
Now our theories are based on different kind of ways of thinking. I have seen some students of physics studying philosophy esp cosmology students as creative intuition is more important in the field because of its vastness. Whereas in other fields of science they are much limitted.
Whatever may be, our science is much more developed today than it was when Archimedes was doing science. This kind of transformation and transition may be due to the nature of time itself or may be due to Shakespeare poem, we don’t have time to think about it. But one must say Physics( Science) must have been at some-point an output of philosophy itself.
