Science may never find itself as The Totalizing Discourse of our age and our time, but this has not yet kept Science – as you say, a “loosely-assembled composite” discipline; though I use the term “Science” broadly, generally and treat the composite as a single pneumatic entity, I realize that there are probably more exceptions than rules within the scientific community – from becoming a totality. The totality: essentially any hermeneutic that has transcended the narrative and become a metanarrative; any practise or discipline that no longer has anything on which there is nothing to say.

Science demonstrates that it has overcome its boundaries when it becomes capable of moral judgements, when it equates the universe with cause, effect, and empirical tests. There is no question that science cannot provide a convincing answer to in this hemisphere; the West is convinced of science: our conviction.

Naturally, religion is no less guilty of overcoming the whole of reality via metanarrative: nor democracy, nor Marxism, nor contemporary environmentalism, nor capitalism. Science as The Totalizing Discourse is unlikely, but science as a totalizing discourse is a reality. “There are indeed two powers in heaven!”

Regarding the impact of the thought experiments… who knows? The overdetermination of Christianity is no guarantor of stability, and may yet, in fact, prove to be the factor that begins the system-wide ideological entropy that the world seems to need every now and again – confession of a formerly overdetermined Christian.

Regardless of the outcome, however, I’d say that there’s plenty of room – and plenty of need, as well – for fun.

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