>
> Platt said to several of us:
> ...It has always bothered me that precious little attention is paid to
> ever expanding consciousness over time from the first little wiggle of
> life to the worldly mind of a Mozart or an Einstein. In other words,
> science, totally dependent on measurable surface data, has largely been
> unable to deal with the steady evolutionary expansion of interior
> awareness, ...
>
>
> dmb says:I think you're drawing a very cartoonish picture of science here
> and what you're saying is just not true. Developmental psychology is a
> science that deals with the expansion of consciousness. Ken Wilber's
> evolutionary approach employs the findings of more than a dozen such
> scientists, for example. Those studies on primate morality by de Wall and
> the work of Haidt does with those would be other examples you might
> recognize. You certainly don't have to take my word for it. Go see.
I guess Ken Wilber also draws a cartoonish picture of science when he
"describes the current state of the "hard" sciences as limited to "narrow
science", which only allows evidence from the lowest realm of
consciousness, the sensorimotor (the five senses and their extensions)."
(Wiki-Ken Wilber) That's what I had in mind in criticizing how science
generally portrays evolution as a series of increasingly complex exterior
physical attributes while largely ignoring the inner expansion of conscious
awareness. There are exceptions of course, as you rightfully cite. But,
they necessarily come from the "soft" sciences of psychology, sociology and
Pirsig's favorite whipping boy, anthropology.
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