THE SLAVERY OF THOUGHT BY: RICHARD J.KOSCIEJEW

THE SLAVERY OF THOUGHT

By: RICHARD J.KOSCIEJEW

We began to perceive the inherent world through the lenses of symbolic categories, to construct similarities and differences in terms of categorical oppositions, and to organize our lives according to themes and narratives. Living in this new symbolic universe, modern humans had a large compulsion to codify and then re-codify our experiences, to translate everything into representation, and to seek out the deeper hidden logic that eliminates inconsistencies and ambiguities.

The mega-narrative or frame tale that served to legitimate and rationalize the categorical oppositions and terms of relation between the myriad number of constructs in the symbolic universe of modern humans were religion. The use of religious thought for these purposes is quite apparent in the artifacts found in the fossil remains of people living in France and Spain forty thousand years ago. These artifactual evidences that are inevitably evident to the forming or affecting part of something fundamental, of what is apparently a possibility, in that, as consisting of a developed language system and most generally, had given deliverance to the contemporaries, of an administrator or a diplomat, and/or an avid student of an intricate and complex social order.

Both religious and scientific thoughts were characterized by or exhibiting the power to think. As of these analytical contemplations  are the act or process of thinking that sought to frame or construct reality through origins, primary oppositions, and underlying causes. This partially explains why fundamental assumptions in the Western metaphysical tradition were eventually incorporated into a view of reality that would later be called scientific. The history of scientific thought reveals that the dialogue between assumptions about the character of spiritual reality in ordinary language and the character of physical reality in mathematical language was intimate and ongoing from the early Greek philosophers to the first scientific revolution in the seventeenth-century. Nevertheless, this dialogue did not conclude, as many have argued, with the emergence of positivism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It was perpetuated in a disguised form in the hidden ontology of classical epistemology-the central issue in the Bohr-Einstein debate.