What is the connection between science and metaphysics?

Metaphysics is the native culture of China in ancient times and a manifestation of Taoism. It can be said that metaphysics is a branch or improvement of Taoism. Metaphysics, also known as Neo-Taoism, is the study and explanation of Laozi, Zhuangzi and Zhouyi. Metaphysics represents people's cognition of things and their interpretation or expectation of natural or social phenomena in ancient China.

Science, in a nutshell, refers to the truth and the correct explanation of the truth of things. Refers to the knowledge that has been discovered, accumulated and recognized, and the application of universal truth or theorem has been systematized and formulated.

Science is the summary, induction and authentication of the known world through data calculation, text explanation, language explanation and image display that the public can understand; Science is not the only way to know the world, but it is fair and consistent, and it is the most reliable practical method to explore the objective world.

What is the relationship between metaphysics and science? In ancient times when science was underdeveloped, metaphysics, as the mainstream Taoist thought in China, was popular for many years and guided people's lives. With the development of modern science, metaphysics is gradually replaced by science.

Modern people find that many ideas in metaphysics are wrong. You can't simply blame the ancients. Due to the limitation of historical conditions, people's understanding of nature and society is a long process. Today's science and technology is the gradual accumulation of previous experience. For example, China can calculate the solar eclipse in ancient times. In ancient times, this was a mysterious thought and an incredible thing. Modern people have a better understanding of astronomy. Eclipses are natural phenomena, and everyone has learned about them, so they are not mysterious.

Ancient natural phenomena can only be explained by metaphysics, when there was no science. With the development of modern science, metaphysics naturally retreated. What modern science can't explain is where metaphysics comes into play.

For example, our common fortune-telling and geomantic omen. From a scientific point of view, fortune telling and geomantic omen are all nonsense. But it has been popular in China for thousands of years, and many people still believe it. The question is, since fortune telling and feng shui are all nonsense, why do many people still believe it? Fortune telling and geomantic omen are the essence of Zhouyi, which has its own theoretical basis, not an empty nest.