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Matthew Bowen wrote:
A very interesting post and a very interesting opinion, but we must agree on a number of principles of what "ki" is proposed to be: - An existing physical/metaphysical energy
- A force that can manipulated, manifested or controlled through thought
- A force that can have a physical affect upon an individual that manipulates it
If you'll agree with those three assertions, then we can move forward.
Ki, under those terms, does not exist. ... The fact remains that almost the entire scientific community does not believe it to have any credibility outside the area of metaphor - this is simply because its effects cannot be properly observed and recorded, ... |
Ki is not other than what can be observed and recorded, It is a different way of understanding what may be observed and recorded. It simply addresses those phenomena as the operation of one thing, vice conventions of treating different sorts interactions as different "things." Understanding in the convention of Ki is not different than selecting a convention of physical analysis for convenience. Maxwell's equations were framed on Maxwells understanding of a "sea of molecular vorticity." It just so happens that the traditional descriptions of the operation of ki map very closely onto the same physical concept of angular momentum that applies to vorticity, waves, spin, gyrodynamics and other forms of fundamentally cyclic motion/alteration across all scales of reality we know of at this time, as a singular quantity at every one of those scales of operation.
The operation of mind in this traditional system is simply an acknowledgment that aware beings affect and are affected by the transfers of motion going on all around them, whether through photons, or other physical vibrations communicating motion. Since Physics has had to wrestle with the fundamental nature of the observer problem (and to strictly police observer- bias issues in experimental efforts), the convention of Ki is not in worse shape for the systematic inclusion of the mind in its system, rather than trying to systematically exclude it.