The Attunement Thesis and Cosmic Dignitarianism

What I call the attunement thesis says that all the formal and natural sciences are grounded in the metaphysics of weak or counterfactual transcendental idealism, and that the primary source of epistemic evidence for this grounding is our essentially non-conceptual, disinterested, and pure aesthetic experience of natural beauty. In Sects. 15.2 and 15.3, I argue (i) that the attunement thesis is true, and (ii) that unless the formal sciences and the natural sciences—principally, logic, mathematics, physics, and biology—(ii.a) were to acknowledge the truth of the attunement thesis and also (ii.b) were to incorporate the attunement thesis into their respective repertoires of foundational a priori principles, then those sciences would be metaphysically alienated from manifest natural reality, with nothing for those sciences to be either meaningful about or true of. Then in Sect. 15.4, building on the attunement thesis, I argue for a second thesis I call cosmic dignitarianism.