List, As an addendum to my forwarded post, here are what Sheldrake claims to be 10 dogmas of science.
*1. Everything is essentially mechanical.2. All matter is unconscious.3. The total amount of matter and energy is conserved.4. The laws of nature are fixed. They are the same today as they were at the beginning, and they will stay the same forever.5. Nature is purposeless, and evolution has no goal or direction.6. All biological inheritance is material, carried in the genetic material, DNA, and in other material structures.7. Minds are inside heads and are nothing but the activities of brains. When you look at a tree, the image of the tree you are seeing is not “out there,” where it seems to be, but inside your brain.8. Memories are stored as material traces in brains and are wiped out at death.9. Unexplained phenomena like telepathy are illusory.10. Mechanistic medicine is the only kind that really works.* > > I had earlier written that dogma 9, seems not supported by Peirce's writings. Although he thought that such matters as telepathy ought be investigated, he seems not to have been convinced himself that such phenomena had been experimentally validated. Perhaps I should have added that while his general anti-materialist tendencies as well as his views concerning the role of a kind of Lamarckian inheritance would tend to support 6., that the second part of that putative dogma is probably not what Sheldrake is emphasizing here (not to mention that DNA research hadn't begun in Peirce's time). Best, Gary R [image: Gary Richmond] *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* *C 745* *718 482-5690* On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Gary Richmond <gary.richm...@gmail.com> wrote: > List, > > It appears to me that many scientists--although not all by all means--who > have looked into it think that Rupert Sheldrake's hypothesis of "morphic > resonance" http://www.sheldrake.org/research/morphic-resonance > is at very least unsupported by experimental testing of it and, well, even > a bit whacko. Sheldrake would argue in part that much of this negative > assessment is the result of most scientists being intellectually bonded to > materialism, what he also calls 'philosophical materialism'. > > Although several years ago I read some of his books and followed the > experiments then being made in an attempt to prove/disprove his theory, I > haven't much thought about it for some time now. When this video was posted > to the biosemiotics list, however, and intrigued by the knowledge that this > TED talk had been censored, I played the video, watching it with some > considerable interest. > > For in it Sheldrake offers what he calls "ten dogmas of science" and > references Peirce, suggesting that Peirce's understanding of 'habit' led > Sheldrake to a sense that *this* notion, as Peirce conceived of it, ought > replace that of 'law' (and constants, etc.) in science, Sheldrake seeing > 'law' as an "anthropological metaphor" at best. > > It seems to me that at least 9 of the "dogmas" he offers (although not the > 9th) are either implicit or explicit in Peirce's work. > > But as mentioned, I have not followed Sheldrake's work for years; when > doing so I viewed his hypothesis as then not fully supported by > experimental testing of it--although he has argued that those tests do in > fact support his theory--so that I offer this short video as an opportunity > for us to consider (1) whether these 10 are indeed dogmas of science, and > (2) if listers think any of them concur with the views of Peirce. (I think > it would be unwise at this point to get into a discussion of morphic > resonance.) > > Best, > > Gary R > > > --------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Prisca Augustyn > Date: Mon, May 29, 2017 at 4:56 PM > Subject: [biosemiotics:9235] Rupert Sheldrake TED Talk > To: "biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee" <biosemiot...@lists.ut.ee> > > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHUaNAxsTg > Rupert Sheldrake - The Science Delusion BANNED TED TALK > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHUaNAxsTg> > www.youtube.com > Re-uploaded as TED have decided to censor Rupert and remove this video > from the TEDx youtube channel. Follow this link for TED's statement on the > matter and Dr ... > > > Some of you may enjoy this (formerly banned) TED talk. Sheldrake questions > scientific dogma by foregrounding Peircean habit. > > > Prisca Augustyn > Professor > Department of Languages, Linguistics & Comparative Literature > Florida Atlantic University > >
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