Within our current Newtonian paradigm, material realism, true wholistic thought is impossible. The scientific rules of strong objectivity, the notion that objects are independent from the mind and determinism prevent it. Strong objectivity was established when Descartes divided the world in to the objective and subjective spheres. This was done mostly as a compromise with the then all-powerful church, which would rule in matters of the subjective mind while science enjoyed freedom in the world of "reality".

Determinism is easiest under stood through analogy. Think of the universe as a bunch of billiard balls in a three dimensional pool table calle

In 1665 Isaac Newton drafted the theories which set us on the course that led to the materialism dominating our culture. The philosophy of materialism matches the paradigm of classical physics, material realism. Since this revolution our vision has been a mechanistic one. This vision was formed as a direct result of the changes in philosophical and political knowledge that came to light in the mid seventeenth century. The power and simplicity of Newton's three laws of motion and the success of scientific empirical method caused nearly every influential thinker of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to use them as a model.

In my opinion the first place to set this kind of change in motion is the religious realm. If people were to embrace the reflectiveness of some eastern traditions it would be greatly beneficial even within a Christian context. Christianity as a whole is flawed by two thousand years of patriarchy; dogma and sexual repression making it one of the poorest choices for this sort of change.

In any case if history is any indication we will see sociologist try and "re-tool" society in the next few hundred years to fit this both/and mold. This is in fact inevitable as long as education levels continue to rise. More and more quantum physical knowledge will become part of our collective unconscious. Ideas will come forth and decisions will be made perhaps differently from this new vantagepoint and ways of life will change accordingly.

In 1992 a team working at Southhampton university designed an experiment to test whether electric fields known to exist across the brain are quantum. Electrodes were attached to the right and left hemispheres of several subjects. The subjects didn't know if the electrodes were turned on or off. The goal was to see whether switching the electrodes on had any impact on conscious task performance. If the brain functions were quantum then measurement should collapse the fields notice

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