Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Lets create a new standard for truth.

A new criterion for truth based on whether it advances life or not.
I showed my earlier knol, 'Our mind is an image that can be felt and seen!' to a neighbor and he said it is BS. Well may be it is BS but who cares - just look at the practical/magical benefits of this knol! My philosophy is to seek out and adapt ideas and ways that have real practical benefits and leave the truth and falsehood part to the heavy duty philosophers and scientists. Also after all we all know that some basic mysteries of life may never be solved - ever; so why miss the train of success opportunities in the mean time! So lets jump on the train of insightful ideas that have practical benefits! Also till we know the truth, lets adopt a new criterion for truth: any thing, any action, any idea that brings goodness, profit, health, happiness etc. to all without having to compromise moral values,and that brings only benefits to all and harm to none then we can say may be it is the rightful and true idea. As truth is beneficial and falsehood is harmful lets just say that that all those ideas that take mankind forward deserve to be honored by being called true. And all those ideas that bring harm we may dishonor by calling them false! At least till we get to the truth.

Given all the misery and mess in the world today we must research and create new paths to advance the science of life and everything else in it in all ways possible. And given the very nature of our brain and the limits of science to provide all the answers we must seek the most beneficial solutions/answers to a better life, even if they are based on unverifiable assumptions. Especially if the assumptions cannot be proved one way or the other. If the assumption is based on a question mark then it is at least 50% true and if it has practical and beneficial applications then it is in our interest to assume it to be true till the time it is proved wrong. And even if a wrong hypothesis brings us benefits then who cares if it is false! Historically if a hypothesis has profitable results then it is usually right.

Just as there are gold mines, diamond mines and oil fields that we are not aware of that we need to find; there are ideas out there that have not been thought of but which we must constantly look for. We must seize every opportunity to find solutions to the problems of life even if the solutions come from speculative hypothesis that cannot right away be proved correct. We already do it in a big way when it comes to religion. We give preference to faith over science. We don't need scientific evidence of Gd. - we just believe. And religion at least at the super mature level has brought real positive results for its followers! Thus my proposal to create new standards for truth means as faith in Gd brings us benefits Gd must be true and real, at least until scientifically proven other wise. ( Which I feel will never happen ).

So lets pull up our selves and put on the table all those unsolvable mysteries of life and try to explain them through speculative hypothesis'. Lets expand the standards of truth and redefine truth as that phenomena which benefits society.

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