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- From: shaman@cix.compulink.co.uk (Leo Smith)
- Subject: Re: MINDWALK - An exercise in Passionate Thought
- Reply-To: shaman@cix.compulink.co.uk
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 10:24:00 +0000
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- In-Reply-To: <1992Dec23.233605.10674@fulcrum.oz.au> steve@fulcrum.oz.au (Steve Taylor)
-
- >I love that phrase. "Wrestling with phantasmal pigs" perfectly describes
- >the experience of trying to interpret new age science. I wish I could >remember whic
- h physicist to attribute this to (Fermi?), but "That`s
- ot >right. That's not even wrong" also describes the confusion of
- trying to >decode new age thinking.
-
-
- The trouble that I have, is that no thought is considered to be
- worthe considering unless it has been published, and preferably years
- ago by someone that some other academic has made a career out of
- discussing:-)
-
-
- The dilemma that anyone has who is trying to introduce new ideas is
- this :-)
-
- 1/. Should he do the degree course, learn the jargon and the
- BS and end up with all the originality knocked out of him, and
- become a teacher or computer scientist?
-
- 2/. Should he read Ayn Rand or Bohm, and attempt to use some of
- their less arcane concepts to make a point that Kant o
- Russell
- may have missed, and thereby be labeled irretrievably as a
- 'New Age' lunatic.
-
- 3/. Write it all down and make a popular film about it.
-
- 4/. Go back to masturbation in disgust.
-
-
- I have a 'strong intuition' that those who espouse Occam, would do
- well to examine ALL the conceptual models of the universe - not just
- the mediaeval time/space/matter/determinism of Newton, or the
- Rational Forms of the greeks and latterly logicians.
-
- That way we might just come up with some simpler and cleaner views of
- the universe, and ourselves.
-
- It is right to be critical of sloppy thinking. That is a logicians
- pregogative. I think it is dangerous to refuse to consider
- alternative possibile models of the universe.
-
-