Consilience

The Ionian Enchantment was the first attempt towards consilience in Wilson’s eyes. The Enchantment wanted to unify the sciences such as physics, biology, chemistry, etc. to create common natural laws. However one cannot study the sciences separately because it would create confusion. Confusion “occurs wherever argument or inference passes from one world of experience to another” (10). We must adapt a common language of learning in order to come to a deeper understanding of our world.

Reductionism is the key to reaching consilience. During the Enlightenment, Rene Descartes introduced reductionism as the one of the most powerful instruments of science. According to Descartes, reductionism is “the study of the world as an assemblage of phys

Wilson tries to explain his idea of consilience by using a labyrinth as an example. He places physics at the doorway to the maze because he believes physics is the key to unification. The different branches of learning such as the social sciences, chemistry and biology are all possible pathways we can choose to get from one room to the next (73). The different rooms represent thoughts and ideas. The thread that leads us to one room (thought) to the next is consilience. Each pathway is connected and by understanding how they are connected, we will have a greater sense of knowledge.

At this point in time, consilience is not possible. The only way it will be possible is to break the cycle of how epigenetic rules are created. As of today the cycle is genes are passed on using epigenetic rules, culture responds to these rules and new rules are then created and passed on and the cycle repeats itself. In order for us as a society to reach consilience we have to have a common language. We have to stop teaching by subject and teach my association. Only then can unification be achieved.

The brain is what takes in our sensory information. It has a primary function of staying alive and reproducing. Our mind has the duty of making sense of the information taken in by

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