The Dispute Dimension
These days I have been reading a book—The Fifth Dimension, by John Hick. According to him after the usual four dimensions, the next dimension is religion. The reason he advanced very briefly is that excepting in the failed Communist countries, there is/was no community without some God and God based Philosophy. Then he brilliantly explained in the book about every religion. But the four dimensions of Einstein relate to the entire Universe, not like religion which is particular to one organism in an insignificant planet, earth. We do not know whether there are humans like organisms anywhere in the Universe and we cannot know whether those humans too, the near biological duplicates still have religions. After all Chimpanzees' whose DNA is more than 99% same as mine, do not have a religion, just like myself.
The candidate more suitable for dimension-hood than religion is the war dimension. After all, whatever be the torn fig leaf of justification for science, it is in fact war with nature. Every human being is an expert in deceiving himself or herself. In the name of human curiosity, science is justified. But now we see every country busy developing more and more destructive weapons of war, indulging in the basically foolish concepts relating to balance of power etc.In economics the name for the war dimension is competition. Even in schools and colleges, we can see the war dimension in the shape of fights for ranks and grades. The class first in school is the early winner in war. In human societies no single society remains stable forever. There will be some revolt and fight against the prevailing social mores, and that society disintegrates.
But again this war dimension or the planned lunacy of destroying the adversary-be it the fellow human beings or continuously nature itself as the adversary, appear to be particular mainly to the human organism. Usually every other organism kills only because of the need for food. But the human organism kills because of its basic war dimension.
Where does one find the most appealing smile? I feel that such a smile can be seen among our infants (we have of course monsters who start schools even at the pre KG for two year olds), and among people in the most primitive societies who live as part of nature. Unfortunately even in those primitive societies, there is animal sacrifice, cannibalism, indicating the existence of the war dimension among those tribes also.
The war dimension essentially is the dimension that destabilizes.
Sciences too shall have missions based on love and altruism. They must be based on Ecology and basic respect for the ecosphere. What we call seeing is mainly unseeing. The eyes collect the photons of the visible spectrum (just 00.0037% of the total spectrum), send them to the visual cortex which models and can only model the three dimensional shapes by blinding us with the remaining extension in the invisible spectrum. On the basis of this essential unseeing, we have developed languages and the connecting conceptual bases for understanding. As a result truth is always hiding in the invisible spectrum. The net result is restlessness leading to the war dimension.
If this war dimension is to be eliminated or at least reduced from its impact which is now drifting earth into a gigantic nuclear holocaust, then ecology must be given primacy in education. Life sciences shall be based on studying the life forms as they are living and not by cutting them open to study their mechanical or engineering structures. Today we inject horrible diseases in lab animals, torture them deliberately to produce some excression useful for making some beauty cream, in torturing and killing them in hundreds of ways, all in the name of human welfare. We have jaded ourselves into accepting this terrible cruelty. I feel that Ecology must be based as the Paradigmatic base of every subject, and ecology means the study of life forms while they are living in nature and not the study based on cutting animals to study their mechanical structures.
YM
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