science is a belief system, dogmatic

Rupert Sheldrake addresses the ten dogmas of science and turns them into questions. None of them stand up very well, as he explains what they are.

1. One dogma is the universe is like a machine, we are like machine, animals and plants are like machines
2. Matter is unconscious.
3. Laws of nature are fixed. Laws of nature now are same as at Big Bang and will be same forever
4. The total amount of matter and energy is always the same, never changes in total quantity, except  at the moment of the Big Bang when all matter came out of no where.
5. Nature is purposeless.
6. Biological heredity is material.
7. Memories are stored inside your brain as material traces. No one knows how it works but almost everyone believes it must be in the brain.
8. Your mind is inside your head, in the brain and no where else.
9. Psychic phenomena are impossible. Your thoughts and intentions can have no effect because your mind is inside your head.
10. Mechanistic medicine is the only kind that really works.

I bought a ticket to hear Dr. Sheldrake talk about his latest book but I was unable to go.  I've been a bit of a fan of his for a long time. I wrote him an email about fifteen years ago, asking him is his thinking had been influenced by Goethe. He wrote back and said he decided to become a scientist because of Goethe but few people saw Goethe's influence in his work.

This is a good Ted talk.

Morphic resonance:  everything in nature has a kind of memory, a kind of resonance. As this resonance evolves, or morphs, the resonance changes. Every species have a kind of collective memory, even crystals do. This theory predicts that if you train animals to learn a new trick, then all around the world the animals should learn the trick quicker because it now belongs to the morphic resonance of that animal, such as teaching a rat a trick.

He says genes are vastly overrated. So does Dr Bruce Lipton, btw.

Are fundamental constants really constant? The speed of light dropped from around 1925 to 1945. In 1948 the speed of light went up again.  Is the speed of light a constant if historical data shows it changes?  The definition of speed of light was changed in 1972 to accommodate the change in the speed of light to solve this 'scientific' problem.

One of biggest areas if the nature of the mind. Science can't deal with the fact that we are conscious. Our experiences don't all seem to be inside our brain. Our minds are extended beyond our brains in the simple act of perception.