En la mente del mundo

Arnau does not offer a system of philosophy, but he does offer a way of understanding the world and positioning oneself in it. The mechanism that has dominated the modern age is exhausted. Rationalism (Descartes), the mathematization of nature (Newton), universal morality (Kant), the logic of competition and chance (Darwin), have taken the planet to the limit and certain scientific practices, so celebrated, have been have become life threatening. It is time to offer an alternative, a new mental culture and a new way of understanding the enigma of reality. The theme of this essay is the relationship between observation and nature. His working hypothesis is the distinction between mind and consciousness. This distinction allows us to establish a second hypothesis: the foundations of reality are not atoms or any other type of physical or material entelechy, but rather perception and desire. Love is the force of reality and life an erotic of perception. An approach that goes against modern common sense. The reader will find here pagan ideas from Greece and India, enlightenment heterodox (Leibniz or Berkeley), philosophers of mind (William James or Whitehead) and quantum theorists (Niels Bohr). According to the principle of complementarity, the methods and interests with which we investigate reality are part of that reality. There is no reality apart from them. Our intentionality is interwoven with the things of the world. You can mathematize nature and disenchant the world. But this does not mean, as Galileo believed, that nature speaks the language of mathematics. It simply means that mathematization opens a path in our relationship with it. A path as legitimate as the poetic or philosophical. This brings us to the correspondence principle. Different worldviews can be 'true' as long as it is accepted that they are complementary. Objectivity is the consensus of specialists. Experts who perceive, desire and feel.