Subject-headings:
Nature ; Spirituality ; Observer
Abstract
By means of examples nature
spirituality is described as certain particularly intense
nature-experiences, felt to be essential and important.
The author is familiar with such experiences, and I find
that they influence also my rational, scientific
conception of nature, emphasizing the reality of direct,
conscious experience of both living, chemical and
physical systems. This makes it difficult to accept
materialist realism (or materialism), the view that
nature exists as an external world separated from and
independent of any observe.r Materialist realism is
generally espoused by natural science, but findings in
several scientific disciplines in this century have led
to severe difficulties with this view. Examples are given
from the disciplines Evolutionary Epistemology, Second
Order Cybernetics, Cognitive Neurophysiology, Statistics
and Physics.
As a more consistent alternative to
materialism the author suggests a philosophy saying that
reality consists entirely of conscious experiences
(individual, collective or egoless).
