Systems science

When I first started high school, I enrolled in the STEM program. Being apart of the program meant I had to double up on science, take accelerated classes, and all of my core classes have a focus on science and math. I struggled in high school, with such a large workload, but STEM taught me to persevere and never give up. One of the qualifications needed to graduate with a STEM medal, is that at the end of high school I had to take an Honors Research class. In this class, I completed a year…

The role of science plays a big role in everyday life. From medical science to political science, there has always been some kind of obstacle. These obstacles have made the art of science very difficult. Superstition being the exact opposite in science creates conflict with those of logic, imagination or lack of imagination creates ideas that interferes with sciences and creates conflict, doubt in sciences has made the arise of opposing theories and arguments, and the fear of science has made…

Robert Bellah terms science as a system evolved by humans to ‘break the dreadful fatalities of this world of appearances’. To him, science plays the similar role to that of religion, in which it tries to build the capacity of “beyonding”. McCloskey owes the origin and development of low science to the Revaluation of Commoners somewhere around 1800. With the formulation of bourgeois Deal, further betterment in the scientific domain led to High Sciences which further were responsible for…

man’s attempts to understand the cosmos. How then does one proceed to study and understand such? Presently, for example, there are well over 300 religions in the world and science can be broken into the physical sciences, social sciences, applied sciences, and life sciences. It is through each of these facets that the systems of the universe are explored. Yet, each of the modern conceptions of study have evolved from earlier forms of cultural innovations, one of which is shamanism. Shamanism is…

Ignorance Is Not Bliss Knowledge is the characteristic people obtained through millennia of trial and error that has allowed humans to become the dominant species and control the Earth. People’s natural curiosity initiated science and technological movements in the early years of humankind's history that have given us new understandings and perspectives of the world. However, before humans had time to move their focus from basic survival to more intellectual endeavors, they were ignorant…

understand the world, we wouldn’t be able to continue that understanding because we would be able to link all the pieces together. “We cannot fully grasp the emergent properties and behaviour of these systems if we only study their component parts in isolation from each other; sometimes we must study the systems a integrated wholes” (Homer-Dixon 256-257). Secondary, the idea of “the rate of scientific discoveries can increase if we reduce the complexity of the particular fields” is explained…

It Is Nothing but Science Fiction The Guardian published an article titled “$ 100m to find alien life? That’s a start – but not nearly enough” by Rebecca Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer is a writer for the Guardian, and chair of the American Museum of Natural History’s department of astrophysics. In the beginning of the article, the author asked a scientific question and wondered if we are alone in universe. Furthermore, she emphasized that there is alien life out of our solar system. However, the…

school, I have taken various science and art classes. These are subjects that have always caught my attention and I plan to continue attending classes that fall under these categories, during my senior year and throughout college. Science has been a subject that I have always had an interest in and have thoroughly enjoyed. During high school, my focuses have primarily been in health science classes that will help me excel in a medical career, although I have taken science classes outside of…

within the Church, through the guidance of the Holy Spirit. Albert Einstein wrote: “Science without religion is lame and religion without science is blind.” (Uršič). The human quest for meaning and purpose requires an interaction between faith and reason, which originally have proceeded on the same journey as complementary to one another; the university system as we know it and the systematic discipline of natural science, are born within Christianity. The Enlightenment with its…

After middle age, the role of philosophy has reexamined by an influential French philosopher Descartes through the meditation; “that implies for Descartes a corresponding reformation of all the sciences, because in his opinion they are only non-self-sufficient members of the one all-inclusive science, and this is philosophy” (Husserl, 1982,…