I know that this inherently weak, compared to instinctual nature, which does the opposite. Our gradual self-destruction is caused by a misuse of the power that reason grants us, not reason itself. It is not reason itself that is destructive, it is our use of it. If I am right about the difference between our thoughts themselves, and who we are, by existing through our thoughts, and the inventions we create through them, we are suppressing our existence, and making the means for it empty of who we are. Scientists are constrained by our dilemma because they are dependent on reason.
Scientists can offer no solution to dilemma, other than admit that they are one of the causes of it.
They explain our existence through reason, and intellect, and invent material things. If us existing through reason, and things we create through it is the problem, it follows that science is as well. Finally, I disagree with your assumption that the advances made in science will ever help in the realm of philosophy. Science can unlock the doors to the mechanisms of the brain, as well as the rest of the world around us, but will never be able to explain consciousness and thought, that is up to philosophers and the rest of humanity. I don't understand your point.