tendencies to literalise and scorn science

• One strong tendency of the vocational schools was to literalize with the scientific information about anatomy and physiology … Another tendency was to go completely the other way and to scorn medical scientific information in favor of the internal, psychological, and subjective aspects of the body. This is a frequent reflex of our students under the first impact of the body epiphany, or faculty who are determined to avoid being taken over by a narrow scientific viewpoint.
• factual history claims literal truth
• the mistake of historical literalism
• theory of reality in holographic universe
• intellectual orthodoxy of science

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1. intellectual orthodoxy of science

   Willis Harman had a particular interest in the relationship between matter and consciousness, he was one of several prestigious Stanford scientists