There is no doubt that science is of enormous value to all humanity. But what if the foundations of science are mistaken? How much more could be achieved if science could be rebuilt on a better paradigm? This essay argues science should be based, not on the idea of material things, but the idea of ‘change’. We are all born into this world on our own and have to make sense of it out of the only thing we have available—our perceptions: things like colour and sound. These perceptions have been created by our brain to model the real world, but this model can only work because the way our perceptions change can precisely model the changes in the outside world. We can have no other experience or understanding of the outside world except that of change. It is, therefore, simply not possible to describe that world in terms of material things, as we can have no knowledge of what it is that exists in the outside world, but only knowledge of how it changes. Perceptions themselves describe that change. Red, for example, has a frequency, i.e., it can be described as change. So, when we experience perceptions like red, we are not experiencing a ‘thing’, we are directly experiencing change. Material things are then an illusion that emerge from conscious perceptions. That is why science needs to be built from the idea of change. Mathematics and quantum theory are both systems that fundamentally deal with change and so quantum theory can be easily reformulated to become a theory of change, while the equations of special relativity emerge if that change travels from place to place at a single speed. In conclusion, science, although already incredibly effective, could be better if reformulated on new foundations—the foundations of change.
David Jewson
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