12-24-2015, 11:44 PM
A very thoughtful suggestion, but perhaps too far ahead of the curve. If you contemplate the probability of psychophysical technologies, many of the titles you've used for proposed fields of research may only seek to carry forward 3D thinking into areas where it is irrelevant or inapplicable.
Perhaps the best practical example is the belief long held by Western Scientists that mathematics is fundamental to all scientific knowledge, and that any meaningful exchange of ideas with an ET race would be mathematically-based. In terms of their blinkered, materialist perspective this may be true; but if you examine the communications that have occurred between numerous ET races and Earth humanity you'll find ample evidence of what a few perceptive commentators have remarked to their own astonishment: few ET races make much use of mathematics; some simply don't understand what it is, in spite of having interstellar capability.
Perhaps the best practical example is the belief long held by Western Scientists that mathematics is fundamental to all scientific knowledge, and that any meaningful exchange of ideas with an ET race would be mathematically-based. In terms of their blinkered, materialist perspective this may be true; but if you examine the communications that have occurred between numerous ET races and Earth humanity you'll find ample evidence of what a few perceptive commentators have remarked to their own astonishment: few ET races make much use of mathematics; some simply don't understand what it is, in spite of having interstellar capability.