How does science connect to what is already known to us? How does it extend our knowledge? How does it challenge our knowledge?
For centuries science have taken a major part of our life, helping us to evolve with everything that is around us. The introduction, of science to our life was one of the greatest changes to the human race,we are trying to use what is already known to us to try and predict futuristic occasions and events.
Science and technology, going hand in hand, are evolving extremely fast. For everything we question, it has became normal and regular that we try to use science and technology to answer it. For example, How evolution came into place? how life started and more... For most of these questions we do not have certain and specific answer, that science would be able to prove, however using science we might try to be able to understand it to an extent.
Science to a particular extent obviously provided me with many answers and did help me understand, all the things I do not have an answer for. I believe that science is much more than only a subject but much more like a lifestyle that people choose to live according to, believe and follow. Science plays an important role in answering questions just like religion does, trying to explain what is hard for us to accept in a way.
I tend to think that the more answers we know using science for a particular question, the more questions that risen up with the answer. The more we know, the more science challenges our knowledge and my knowledge in person. Making me ask questions that again science, successfully or not will try to answer.
Monday, March 24, 2014
Monday, March 3, 2014
Indigenous knowledge systems in China
Trying to find an indigenous knowledge of which differs from my culture' i have decided to explore a Chinese Tradition knowledge.
Sharing common concepts which have been developed in China and are based on a tradition of more than 2,000 years, including various forms of herbal medicine and many more.
Chinese medicine are rooted in books such as the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon" and the "Treatise on Cold Damage" . In traditional Chinese herbal medicine, plant elements are by far the most commonly, such as the assorted dried plant and animal parts used in these traditional medicines. The indigenous Chinese have roughly 13,000 medicinal used in China and over 100,000 medicinal recipes recorded in the ancient literature.
Although today, herbal medicines have gained a lot of power and scientific support, the chinese believed in this medicinal treatment long before it was as wide known. The believe the enerfy in plants support our body systems, and they tend to mix it mostly in drinks such as Tea, or mix the herbs in the needles and spread them all over the body.
Sharing common concepts which have been developed in China and are based on a tradition of more than 2,000 years, including various forms of herbal medicine and many more.
Chinese medicine are rooted in books such as the "Yellow Emperor's Inner Canon" and the "Treatise on Cold Damage" . In traditional Chinese herbal medicine, plant elements are by far the most commonly, such as the assorted dried plant and animal parts used in these traditional medicines. The indigenous Chinese have roughly 13,000 medicinal used in China and over 100,000 medicinal recipes recorded in the ancient literature.
Although today, herbal medicines have gained a lot of power and scientific support, the chinese believed in this medicinal treatment long before it was as wide known. The believe the enerfy in plants support our body systems, and they tend to mix it mostly in drinks such as Tea, or mix the herbs in the needles and spread them all over the body.
Friday, January 17, 2014
Is History a science?
Personally I have never compared a subject such as History and Science in general, I have always lived with a certain prospective of which both have no relation at all, however by reading an extract The Nature of History by Arthur Marwick, in which simply explains that History and Science share similar ways of analysis however only to a certain degree.
In terms of futuristic predictions both Science and History rely on previous events, accidents or situations that will support the final prediction, but taking into considerations the differences of both subject we can conclude that History does not necessarily predict what will happen like science and it does predict more of what would be the chances of a situation to occur again considering the current situation.
In my opinion although History and Science do share a lot of similarities (to a certain degree again), I believe that History in most of our way of thinking I believe that there is a difference between the two, using our common sense.
A famous quote translated from Hebrew states that 'A person with no past, his present is shallow and his future is veil in mist'. I tend to agree with that quote, and my justification would be that in any case of our cultural history, it has an effect of who we are and what we would like to be and how we would like to improve.
In terms of futuristic predictions both Science and History rely on previous events, accidents or situations that will support the final prediction, but taking into considerations the differences of both subject we can conclude that History does not necessarily predict what will happen like science and it does predict more of what would be the chances of a situation to occur again considering the current situation.
In my opinion although History and Science do share a lot of similarities (to a certain degree again), I believe that History in most of our way of thinking I believe that there is a difference between the two, using our common sense.
A famous quote translated from Hebrew states that 'A person with no past, his present is shallow and his future is veil in mist'. I tend to agree with that quote, and my justification would be that in any case of our cultural history, it has an effect of who we are and what we would like to be and how we would like to improve.
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