home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: misc.health.alternative
- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!agate!boulder!tramp.Colorado.EDU!gordon
- From: gordon@tramp.Colorado.EDU (GORDON ALLEN R)
- Subject: Re: War cry of the scientific
- Message-ID: <gordon.725558995@tramp.Colorado.EDU>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: tramp.colorado.edu
- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- References: <1han6gINN4uf@grapevine.EBay.Sun.COM> <schumach.725153887@convex.convex.com> <MARY.92Dec27103754@martinique.Cayman.COM>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 16:09:55 GMT
- Lines: 20
-
- mary@Cayman.COM (Mary Malmros) writes:
-
-
- >It is true that Western scientific medical practioners know something about
- >how bodies work. It is also true that practitioners of many other systems
- >know something about how bodies work. It is absolutely not true that
- >Western scientific medical practitioners know EVERYTHING about how bodies
- >work. There are many conditions for which they know neither the cause nor
- >the cure. In these cases, they're reduced to making educated guesses, and
- >it makes sense to consider alternatives.
- I'd like to add something here. We can elaborate with great detail how, for
- example, neural impulses can cause an arm to move. Yet, we cannot tell some-
- one how to move their arm. There is a huge gap in our understanding of
- thought and action. About 15 years ago or so, a psychiatrist even told me
- that thought cannot move molecules!
- --
- Allen Gordon *If the folly of but one of us was changed to*
- Research Associate *intelligence, and divided amongst a thousand*
- gordon@tramp.colorado.edu *toads, each would be more intelligent than *
- *Aristotle *
-