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- From: steve@fulcrum.oz.au (Steve Taylor)
- Subject: Re: MINDWALK - An exercise in Passionate Thought
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.233605.10674@fulcrum.oz.au>
- Keywords: Re: MINDWALK - An exercise in Passionate Thought
- Organization: The Fulcrum Consulting Group
- References: <1992Dec22.231207.24782@linus.mitre.org>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 23:36:05 GMT
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- tucker@maestro.mitre.org (William Tucker) writes:
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- >>>>The movie is based on the book "The Turning Point" by Fritjof Capra.
- >>>>Let me tell you all... I will be RUSHING to the bookstore to buy
- >>>>it first thing in the morning!
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- >>>Why not pick up something rational instead? Perhaps Atlas Shrugged by
- >>>Ayn Rand or a REAL physics book.
-
- >>Oh dear. I was completely on your side until you mentioned Rand.
-
- >Choosing 'sides' is the mark of the mark. Open wide.
- Oh spare me. The mark of the mark is to believe whatever you're told
- by the carnival barker. Capra, for instance, though there seem to be a lot
- of other snake oil salesman selling taoist physics and the like. No that I
- necessarily dislike all of the things they talk about - just their attempts
- to "prove" them with distorted physics.
-
- >That single sentence is probably the most astute, telling statement
- >of this whole "debate." In the true spirit of "us against them,"
- >we all end up wrestling with phantasmal pigs and complaining about
- >"their" grunts.
-
- I love that phrase. "Wrestling with phantasmal pigs" perfectly describes
- the experience of trying to interpret new age science. I wish I could remember
- which physicist to attribute this to (Fermi?), but "That`s not right. That's
- not even wrong" also describes the confusion of trying to decode new age
- thinking.
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- Steve
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