From Einstein to the Law: Reclaiming the First Person in Science and Life.

EXISTENTIALIST SOCIETY - Melbourne, Australia.

An online presentation, followed by discussion. All viewpoints welcome.

Remco Van Santen will present the topic and lead the discussion.

"From Einstein to the Law:
- Reclaiming the First Person in Science and Life"

Remco will explore how modern culture has drifted from lived experience toward abstraction, and what that loss costs us in education, science, and law. It will begin with existential learning, arguing that meaning cannot be delivered from the outside. Learning happens when free agents meet, uncertainty is allowed, and understanding is authored rather than transferred, as being evolved in Finland.

This pattern of third person dominance appears starkly in physics where labels like “particle”, “wave”, or “energy” are shown to be practical tools, not final truths.

Remco then draws a parallel with law where modern courts still operate within a Newtonian frame, seeking certainty by excluding interior life and context. Legal processes focus on observable actions while fear, motive, grief, and lived meaning are ruled inadmissible. The result is a dehumanised search for truth that replaces understanding with procedure.

The presentation concludes that many contemporary crises share a single root cause: the systematic exclusion of the first-person perspective. It will be argued that reclaiming that will not abandon rigour but will restore completeness.

NOTE: The photo is of Niels Bohr (Danish Physicist) and Albert Einstein.

The ZOOM LINK will appear for those who RSVP.
Meeting ID: 817 3439 9821 - - Passcode: 753569

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