Science Inspired Philosophy

Anyone who has ever spent more than 30 seconds with me knows I ask a lot of questions.

Ever since I was young, I’ve had a “scientific mindset.” I was trying to drill at why things happened. I also asked a lot of “what if [insert hypothesis]?” questions because I wanted to explore alternative possibilities. I love finding new correlations and theories.

Naturally, science has become my favourite area to study, and I spend a lot of time learning about scientific things. But — I’m also interested/dedicated to personal improvement.

And I’ve recently discovered that science is another way to develop my mindsets and character further.

Science topics make for some excellent personal growth analogies.

Here’s one for stoicism:

Homeostasis

You may have heard the term “warm-blooded” assigned to animals like humans and “cold-blooded” to animals like snakes. Warm-blooded means that those animals can internally “create” heat. Compared to cold-blooded animals, who take on the temperature of their environment.

Humans are (almost) always 37 degrees Celcius. We stay at the same temperature unless we are sick or in a dangerous situation.

This isn’t magical. We call our ability to keep our bodies at one temperature, “thermoregulation.” Thermoregulation is part of a wildly crucial process called homeostasis.