May 23rd, 2005

 

Elaborating comments for ’Scientific Revolution’

 

The purpose of the document ’Scientific Revolution’ is in part to pave the way for a more holistic oriented science, partly to illustrate a principle in our mind, that can be called ’the principle of creation’. The principle of creation illustrates the development for complex structures, e.g. our consciousness, an organization or science as a complex of knowledge.

 

The principle is used in the text through its composition: Chapter 1, Introduction, serves as an appetizer intended to motive the reader to read the document, also the introduction signals that it is directed towards the left hemisphere. The signals are e.g. the headline ’Thesis’ and the scientific style used. This puts the consciousness in an analytic mode, and prepares it to perform an analytical piece of work with the document.

 

If, instead, a picture had been included and the headline were more creative, like e.g.:

 

The Real Princess

It would also activate the right hemisphere, which is connected to the imagination.

 

After activating the left hemisphere, the text continues in chapter 2, Bringing forth the unconscious, with the analytical and logical style, but with hidden messages to the right hemisphere. The chapter begins with a quote, which is too complex for the left hemisphere alone to make any sense of it. The messages to the right hemisphere are then delivered through small ”consensus hiccups” compared to traditional scientific style and by emphasizing certain words, which is especially directed to the right hemisphere. These ’hidden devices’ actives the right hemisphere (unconsciously) to make it as active in the reading process as the left hemisphere is.

 

In chapter 3, Shaking the reality, our present way of perceiving reality is questioned. In this manner a part of the readers attention is directed towards wondering and perhaps being confused about where the fixed points are. This means that less attention is directed towards the knowledge complex activated in the left hemisphere, which makes it less solid and disposed for changes.

 

The intention of chapter 4, Unleashing the unconscious, can be illustrated by the following conceptual figure:

The figure intends to illustrate that a leap in abstraction level occurs, compared to the first three chapters. In this chapter the intention of the document is revealed for the reader, which means that the knowledge in the right hemisphere, that the text succeeded in activating, are made conscious. The chapter attempts to use this activated knowledge as a stepping stone or springboard, which ideally lifts the consciousness of the reader. In this way the reader are disposed to receive knowledge ’face to face’ (intuition) in stead of piece by piece (rational).

 

The sequence in the four chapters are illustrated on Figure 1:

Figure 1: The intended development in the consciousness in the process of reading ’Scientific Revolution’. Activated knowledge are illustrated as ellipses.

 

The sequence sketched above is the intended effect. In order for this to succeed several conditions must be met, e.g.:

 

- The subject must be appealing and interesting to maintain the attention of the reader through out the text.

- The signals to the right hemisphere must ’do their work’ - if they do not catch on no springboard are build

 

Assuming that these conditions are met, there are several possible reactions at the end of the text:

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