[troutman]

Originally Posted by peter12

Science as a methodology is pretty straight-forward. Hypothesize, gather data, test results for error, observe, and repeat.

I'm talking more about the spirit that provides us the motivation and our conclusions in regards to our humanity.

Maybe I'm just an anthrophile, but I'm not at all interested in studying the natural world for the sake of studying the natural world. As Plato writes in "Phaedrus," trees don't teach us anything, it's only in the city that actual conversations can take place between free men.

I bet that the scientific method is a universal means of gathering data, but without the proper spirit, it doesn't give us any knowledge about ourselves.

We are physically "star stuff". Star stuff that can think (meta-physically).

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself (your friend Carl) -