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- From: clarke@acme.ucf.edu (Thomas Clarke)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Facts and Values (was Where it came from)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.202330.1264@cs.ucf.edu>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 20:23:30 GMT
- References: <1992Aug26.182933.28559@unislc.uucp>
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- I missed the start of this thread.
-
- Did someone read "Lilith" by
- Robert (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance) Pirsig?
-
- In a philosophy book disguised as a novel, Robert Pirsig tries to
- show how science has a morality. He calls it the "metaphysics of
- quality." The world is made of two principles, the dynamic and the
- static. The dynamic is unknowable, mystic, etc. When science
- explains something it passes from dynamic to static. Morality
- comes in since it is wrong to try to hold back the dynamic using
- the static.
-
- Biology is a dynamic pattern built upon the static patterns of
- physics. Biological man is the static pattern upon
- which social man is dynamic, but social man is the static pattern
- for intellectually dynamic man which is where the threshold is
- located currently.
-
- Lots more in the book. It's very readable. Believable??
- --
- Thomas Clarke
- Institute for Simulation and Training, University of Central FL
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- (407)658-5030, FAX: (407)658-5059, clarke@acme.ucf.edu
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