Abstract
Our chronically impoverished explanatory capacity in
respect of P-consciousness is highly suggestive of a problem with science
itself, rather than its lack of acquisition of some particular
knowledge. The hidden assumption built into science is that science
itself is a completed human behaviour. Removal of this assumption is
achieved through a simple revision to our science model which is constructed,
outlined and named ‘dual aspect science’ (DAS). It is constructed
with reference to existing science being ‘single aspect
science’. DAS is consistent with and predictive of the very explanatory
poverty that generated it and is simultaneously a seamless upgrade;
no existing law of nature is altered or lost. The framework is completely
empirically self-consistent and is validated empirically. DAS
eliminates the behavioural inconsistencies currently inhabiting a
world in which single aspect science has been inherited rather than
chosen and in which its presuppositions are implemented through
habit rather than by scientific examination of options by the scientists
actually carrying out science. The proposed DAS framework provides
a working vantage point from which an explanation of P-consciousness
becomes expected and meaningful. The framework requires that
we rediscover what we scientists do and then discover something new
about ourselves: that how we have been doing science is not the entire
story. Dual aspect science shows us what we have not been doing.