In Pursuit of the Goal of Science: Through a Synthesis of Phenomenology and Lucid Dreaming

Abstract

Science evolves when its understanding of "reality" is discovered to be too limiting to account for some newly observed or hypothesized phenomenon. This discovery exposes certain hidden assumptions responsible for the limitation, and thereby suggests a less limited understanding which provides a matrix to include the new phenomenon. The continual shedding of limits in this way is the aim of science, in its endeavor to find an ultimate understanding that gives a completely unified and consistent account of all possible phenomena.