This video discusses a topic that is near and dear to me. I first started school, pursuing a neuroscience and biochemistry double major. I really wanted to research obscure aspects of consciousness and the brain that are not being actively explored. I eventually found out that the things that are researched the most are things that have the largest potential for commercialization and profit. I also found out about corruption within the academic community where corporations can buy the results that they want. Even if the research doesn't support it, the researcher will sometimes add a tagline somewhere in the conclusion that can be used out of context to give the corporations what they wanted. This really upset me, especially the level of taboo surrounding some issues like psychic phenomena.
It reminds me of the way that the catholic church treated scientists after the scientific revolution and the age of enlightenment. Especially the way that some scientists can be ridiculed and completely ostracized from the community because of some ideas that they have. I think that it is of the utmost importance that scientists in particular keep open minds and avoid the crystallization and stagnancy of their beliefs about the world.
However, I have noticed that a lot of professors that have their entire identities tied into what they teach, can become quite irrational when ideas that are contradictory to their teachings are proposed. I think that this is because these new ideas that contradict what they have been teaching have the potential to completely undermine everything that they believe they have accomplished through teaching, because it would mean that what they have been teaching wasn't the whole truth.
Science and spirituality were once intertwined and I honestly believe that we will eventually approach a state wherein the two come back together again.
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