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Consilience:
The Unity of Knowledge by Edward O. Wilson
The more you know about any subject, the higher the need for systems thinking and the more you should try to understand the relationship of everything with the whole. Social and natural sciences are intimately connected. That is what Edward Wilson wants to explain with his thesis of the unity of knowledge. Nothing could be more challenging taking into account the limitations of the human mind on one hand –reasoning capacity, time availability, reading & listening speed, understanding ability– and the uncontrollable growth of human knowledge, on the other. Doctor Wilson succeeds in the transmission of his message. The fact that, as Doctor Wilson states, “Human mind has evolved to believe in gods not in biology,” complicates the issue. Consequentially, religions are a natural outcome of evolution. The biologist does not refer to any religion in particular, even though he acknowledges his Christian background. He quotes Spinoza on the interchangeability of the concepts of God and nature. Buddhism is not even mentioned in the book. But I find that “consilience’ as a word is close to “Dhamma,” the Buddhist expression for NATURAL ORDER. And both the Buddha and the scientist agree that moral, as the regulator of social conduct, is a human—not a godly—subject.
 
Gustavo Estrada
Autor de HACIA EL BUDA DESDE EL OCCIDENTE 

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