Monday, February 7, 2011

Philosophy Wire: Lake Vostok, the human "understanding" and the "destruction" the latter entails...

Philosophy Wire by Spiros Kakos [2011-02-07]: Russian scientists trying for years to reach via drilling to the underground famous Lake Vostok in Antarctica, stopped their effort just 5 meters before their final goal (the roof of the underground lake) because of the advent of winter in the area [source: Source 1, Source 2]. The infamous lake remains isolated from the rest of the world for 15 million years and scientists hope to find in its waters organisms that will amaze them. Humans have always been curious and wanted to understand. However, the "understanding" in some cases amounts to "destruction" of what we understand ... When you "understand" something, you destroy it in order for it to fit the narrow framework of your thinking, which may have not be related at all with its true nature as Sestov postulates (see Harmonia Philosophica [English]). The underground isolated lake will cease to be what it "is" and its true essence will be part of the past, leaving just some scientific papers for the present and nothing for the future...

Articles for further reading:
Against Ecology Coercion, Harmonia Philosophica [English]

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