a method of procedure that has characterized natural science since the 17th century, consisting in systematic observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.Wow! That's why the definition is suboptimal.
Most people don't even follow this explanation or close cousins of the scientific method. If they did, racism would not exist. Why not? Because evidence would cause the person to revise their hypothesis and conclusions; therefore their institutions. But wait, the definition says the scientific method applies to natural science, not to every day life or thought processes in general.
That's why the suboptimal definition misleads people into justifying conclusions that are unsupported by the history of information on the topic.
Instead, this suboptimal definition allows people to fall in love with an individualized thought process full of broken links that leads the person to a troubleshooting page for their contradictions that tells them false positives of the society are proof their hypothesis-conclusion for racism is valid. Thus so also is their self-esteem validated. validated by walking backwards through a swamp, so they can justify their reason for doing so by not looking at it directly. But rather seeing their swampish logic as they move away from it. History is the study of the processes, events and all influencing factors relating to a subject area. This then also informs the person how the information relates to self and all else. By default, this process continues to expand to include all subject areas because everything affects everything, no matter how many degrees of separation. Everything has a history, everything is history.
Everything about you is history. You are a history book.
This is why understandings require a continuous process of study under and through and from the context of that subject, all else and self.
Everything that can be studied should be studied in conjunction with its history.
Suboptimization Started in Africa
History will support, that good and bad human qualities manifested in Africa just as they have all over the world in all groups of people. Far longer than anywhere else on this planet, Africa has had the longest tenure of humans doing what humans do. Even before current groupings of humans occupied areas outside of Africa, those areas were occupied by their black Ancestors. The scientific method of study of history will bear this out. As stated in the previous message, white Europeans would never have been able to achieve or maintain world subjugation (democracy) without the suboptimization of the human. The seeds of suboptimization of the human were planted in Africa. Enough evidence is provided by the in-fighting up and down the Nile.The seeds of suboptimization migrated and flourished in Asia, then gained new life in the USA.
If Africa had been properly functioning optimally, no group of diasporan prodigal africans could have returned to africa and conquered it. If they did, it would have been extremely short-lived and then prevented from happening again. The scientific method applied to the information we encounter daily, would quickly lead us to understand we are in the low-functioning human stage, that causes us to replace the scientific method way of understanding, and instead use the thought process method, which of course, is just all over the place between any two people and within the same person on any two topics. This delays our recognition, that if we returned to the scientific method process method of learning, as we used when we were very young children, we could turbo charge the pace of understanding what we need to.
To go along with this thought then, is plenty of historical evidence that says, the pace of understandings of individuals, families, groups and larger collectives is the rate of change for the controllable factors. A current mantra in America is “the cure for cancer.” If Americans really want it, instead of feeling good about themselves for donating money, it would be better if Americans who donated money and the donees, instead invested more in applying the scientific method more to the things they care about the most.
This essentially then requires the person to remove their cancerous thought processes and replace it with a more healthy thought process called the scientific method. The logic in the mind must be cured first. It is the sick elephant in the room of reason that is being ignored. Doing so then, any person, group or collective could significantly improve their controllable factors.
Once this takes place in Africa, and it must, and it will, no malfunctioning African will be allowed to jeopardize communal unity.
Applying the scientific method to the history of any subject area will reveal understandings that will negate, corroborate or expand current understandings.History is a form of scientific method, just by virtue of its existence. It is its own hypothesis, its own investigation, its own information, its own conclusion, it own revision. History has already done what the scientific method does. All we have to do is read, look at, study, review history using the same language that it is.
In other words, we must use the scientific method to understand the scientific method (history).
Go back two messages ago and understand what the scientific method more fully is. Then see UC#1718 as another perspective to help you understand what is meant by history being a form of the scientific method.
