Paradigm Shifts or Paradigm Focus

I've often believed that the brain does not create thought, but rather that it channels thought, so I would believe that thought existed before the brain, that the brain grew into thought. And the way we channel thoughts is through paradigms, if we place a boundary around a collection of beliefs, we are better able to hold onto the belief. Finding the most general boundaries, those that contain a lot of beliefs, has always been important to me, I've been obsessed with theories of everything, even if Popper says they are meaningless because they can't be falsified. Of course it was Kant that described the inherent contradictions in the most general beliefs in his transcendental dialectic, that determinism or freedom, complex or simple, God or no God, these beliefs can't be proven one way or the other. The very edge of our most general beliefs are divided in a way that can't be contained.

Within the scope of a paradigm, I see the understanding as the general maxim and judgement as the point of focus, it is like a strange telescope that expends and shrinks according to our intuition. We can focus a general belief on lots of different areas, I hope to contain all my beliefs with the paradigm of duality, it used to be determinism but that shifted. That the mixture of mind and matter creates the many identities and varied experiences, with the duality creating the dialectic that Kant wrote of, the dialectical is meaningful because both sides exist, in a vortex of void and being.

Kuhn wrote that paradigm shifts are incommensurable, that the shift in science from Newton mechanics to Einstein's general relativity cannot be consider a move towards greater truth, rather the new one was an entirely separate paradigm. There is some truth in this, but what can't be ignored is that Einstein's theory was applicable to all of Newton's facts, he just added a few new facts, a greater accuracy of celestial objects. For me, Kant's dialectic represents the biggest problem to a general theory of everything, and by framing that problem within a paradigm I can focus my intuition on finding coherent beliefs to justify the language used in containing the problem.