The Science Of Israel

A vital task of our human lives is to apply clear conscious conclusions, but not forfeiting the complexity of reality; this is a tall cognitive order for self-control in the present time and our sensational knowledge or emotional wisdom about the construction principles of real life complexity and implicit life control energies is methodically more a psychological result of social narratives and not a psychophysical record of empirical history or rational philosophy. The quantum implication of human memory and learning is the decisive fact that longterm storage of socio-natural events in the human brain and subsequently technical artifacts is bound to successful 'time-elimination', i.e. the creative integration (reconstruction) of shortterm events into a 'time-scale' of higher order (or disorder) to reduce the complexity of experienced event chains. From this methodical point of observation, it does not surprise the empirical rational researcher that the history of Jewry is portrayed as a teleology of ideas and ideals that resisted the oceanic waves of enmity in this physical world like an ethical rock: a certain human quantum or essence does not dissolve into the molecular 'Aufbau' (construction) of the socio-physical world. This complex inter-action of faith and science as complementary opposites is stated in Genesis 1:3 (Let there be light), pointing to an eternal spiritual physics of creative unity as electro-magnetic wave function and 'before' this energetic event time did not exist. In our daily experience, real life and human toil are actually about practical deeds, based on learned theoretical principles; however, scientific laws are methodically produced as temporal structures, dealing with our evolving socio-dynamic (groupthink) knowledge of reality and consequently different physical frameworks of time, memory and learning; from this psychophysical viewpoint, every temporal calendar (e.g. 5773HC) is only a technical convention and no-thing or language can be taken literally, even not mathematical or logical constructions, also being neuro-mental concepts for human knowledge condensation and conversion. In human life, we are always confronted with the progressive transition from the past (0) to the future (1), but living itself is only possible in the present (1/2): digging for some archeological artifacts does also not alter the process event chain, eventually unlocking precise details of the past and possibly influencing future events. Original scientific research emerges methodically with the empirical and rational perception by the human mind of the creative concealment in the physical or energetic order of space-

RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 2013

A vital task of our human lives is to apply clear conscious conclusions, but not forfeiting the complexity of reality; this is a tall cognitive order for self-control in the present time and our sensational knowledge or emotional wisdom about the construction principles of real life complexity and implicit life control energies is methodically more a psychological result of social narratives and not a psychophysical record of empirical history or rational philosophy. The quantum implication of human memory and learning is the decisive fact that long-term storage of socio-natural events in the human brain and subsequently technical artifacts is bound to successful 'time-elimination', i.e. the creative integration (reconstruction) of shortterm events into a 'time-scale' of higher order (or disorder) to reduce the complexity of experienced event chains. From this methodical point of observation, it does not surprise the empirical rational researcher that the history of Jewry is portrayed as a teleology of ideas and ideals that resisted the oceanic waves of enmity in this physical world like an ethical rock: a certain human quantum or essence does not dissolve into the molecular 'Aufbau' (construction) of the socio-physical world. This complex interaction of faith and science as complementary opposites is stated in Genesis 1:3 (Let there be light), pointing to an eternal spiritual physics of creative unity as electromagnetic wave function and 'before' this energetic event time did not exist. In our daily experience, real life and human toil are actually about practical deeds, based on learned theoretical principles; however, scientific laws are methodically produced as temporal structures, dealing with our evolving socio-dynamic (groupthink) knowledge of reality and consequently different physical frameworks of time, memory and learning; from this psychophysical viewpoint, every temporal calendar (e.g. 5773HC) is only a technical convention and nothing or language can be taken literally, even not mathematical or logical constructions, also being neuro-mental concepts for human knowledge condensation and conversion. In human life, we are always confronted with the progressive transition from the past (0) to the future (1), but living itself is only possible in the present (1/2): digging for some archeological artifacts does also not alter the process event chain, eventually unlocking precise details of the past and possibly influencing future events. Original scientific research emerges methodically with the empirical and rational perception

2016

A vital task of our human lives is to apply clear conscious conclusions, but not forfeiting the complexity of reality; this is a tall cognitive order for self-control in the present time and our sensational knowledge or emotional wisdom about the construction principles of real life complexity and implicit life control energies is methodically more a psychological result of social narratives and not a psychophysical record of empirical history or rational philosophy. The quantum implication of human memory and learning is the decisive fact that long-term storage of socio-natural events in the human brain and subsequently technical artifacts is bound to successful ‘time-elimination’, i.e. the creative integration (reconstruction) of shortterm events into a ‘time-scale ’ of higher order (or disorder) to reduce the complexity of experienced event chains. From this methodical point of observation, it does not surprise the empirical rational researcher that the history of Jewry is portra...

2007

This unpublished paper explores the relationship among natural science, natural theology, and Old Testament wisdom literature. My main contention here is that Israel’s wisdom literature inculcates a stance of radical openness to the potentialities of the created world, a stance that abets a healthy development of both natural theology and natural science. Finally, regarding natural science, it will not be my claim that Israel’s wisdom literature should be accorded total responsibility for the rise of that grand and sometimes inglorious enterprise; merely that OT wisdom literature is congruent with attitudes toward created existence which value that existence and find it worthy of the detailed observation and analysis which are responsible for the rise of natural science. OT wisdom literature is thus one of the several sources of western science. Moreover, I shall claim that Israelite wisdom literature inculcates values that are congruent with a chastened, humble natural science, one not given to the abuse of the created world, because it knows that creation is the work of God.

Aestimatio: Sources and Studies in the History of Science

A discussion of Création du monde et limites du langage. Sur l’art d’écrire des philosophes juifs médiévaux by David Lemler. Published Online (2021-08-31)Copyright © 2021 by Igor H. De Souza Article PDF Link: https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/aestimatio/article/view/37702/28700 Corresponding Author: Igor H. De Souza, Yale UniversityE-Mail: [email protected]

2014

This paper will investigate the cosmology of Jewish religious individuals, in their interactions with the secular (i.e. non-religious) world. The term ‘cosmology’ is given different meanings in different disciplines. In the human sciences, at its most inclusive, it is used to include our understanding of the ways the world is created, the place of human beings in that world and how we relate to the natural world and to one another. My research looks at the ways in which some contemporary Orthodox Jews relate their ideas of the authority of Scripture, understood as part of a Theocratic cosmology, to a scientific view of the cosmos. Modern scientific views of the universe and creation also had theocratic roots but, in its post-Enlightenment form, the cosmos is generally seen in mechanistic and amoral ways, and the role of human beings within it is less clearly defined.

Theology and Science, 2018

Through a personal narrative about my own entry into the field of science and religion, the essay reflects on the interplay of religion and science in Judaism. In addition to documenting my involvement with the dialogue of religion and science, the essay provides a brief historical overview of the interplay of the relationship between science and religion in the case of Judaism and considers diverse approaches toward technoscience among the main strands of Judaism today. The essay ends by recognizing the importance of science in Jewish intellectual history and the potential contribution of Judaism to the field of religion and science.