Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Microscope and Anthropocentrism

The invention of the telescope not merely extends the human eye to previously non-visible objects; it transforms the traditional concept of the human place in the cosmos.  In contrast, the use of the microscope has remained basically anthropocentric, as Physicists continue to seem confident of eventually isolating the ultimate irreducible constituents of the human world, in which they are perhaps miraculously combined.  However, the microcosmos continues to elude finitude, evincing, rather an indefinite pattern of system within system.  What that pattern suggests is a similar macroscopic one of universes within universes.  Accordingly,pl the human cosmos occupies merely one level of an infinitude of cosmoses, both macro- and micro-, of no special significance except to its inhabitants.

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