Three ways of understanding the world

In order to survive we humans had to create models explaining world around us and we have at least three ways of doing it:

• Through beliefs - creating mythical explanations, something to believe in without logical and critical thinking – for example various myths, legends, prophecies, religions and faiths
• Through paradigms, philosophy, analogy to things that exist; an attempt to create a plausible explanation how things might be working through some sort of rather logical thinking, sometimes clearly providing models which seems to be not provable experimentally or cannot be called science and which may be an expression of some sort of convictions or assumptions about the reality through the prism of existing culture – for example in the past mechanistic paradigm of the universe, or more recent concept of Spiral Dynamics which gives some sort of roadmap to humankind development.
• Through science, through scientific method – where concepts are scrutinised and facts needs to be proven scientifically; the highest achievement which have changed the world we are living in.

MG