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picture of reality is to be based. When the psychological mode of the frame of reference realises the limitations of its symbolic-dualistic knowledge of the logical reason (classical logic), it itself makes a quantum jump to the scientific mode, which is recording what is observed honestly and exactly. The scientific temper with its restless intellectual questioning, its reluctance to accept anything on trust, its capacity to doubt has been the spur to all adventure and experiment. It does not accept any view without a scrutiny or criticism and is free to ask questions and doubt assertions. In a scientific mode, attentivity takes over as the subject of cognizance, so the scientific mode is synergistic to the psychological mode. When the scientific mode is sustained over a long chronological time, then it sees the subjective nature of thought, or it sees the wholeness of the fact. The characteristics of scientific mode are (a) an ontological assumption of oneness, wholeness, interconnectedness of everything, and (b) an epistemological choice to include all the evidence', and this is called rational inference or quantum logic. Quantum logic is synergistic to classical logic. This is called true science or holistic science.
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We have constructed a low synergy society, which invariably has a high incidence of conflict. This is the opposite of self-actualising society, which obviously demonstrates lesser proclivity for conflict and higher proclivity for cooperation and harmony.
Holistic science is a dynamic interplay of subjective research and objective research. Holistic science leads to direct perception, verbal cognition and rational inference (quantum logic) where all the three states are at different quantum energy potentials of the same mind spectrum. Holistic science leads to spiritual evolution, which is selftranscendence of materialism at the psychological level. Spiritual evolution heals the mind-brain system.
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