Re: virus: The Kingdom...

Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Tue, 18 May 1999 16:17:44 -0500

From:           	"psypher" <overload@fastmail.ca>
Subject:        	Re: virus: The Kingdom...
To:             	virus@lucifer.com
Date sent:      	Tue, 18 May 1999 15:12:33 -0400 (EDT)
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>
> > Science, by, of, and from its own genesis, questions all
> assumptions.
> > If it doesn't, it ain't science.
> >
> > The snow is often yellow from dogma.
>
> ...assumptions frequent in scientists:
>
> [1] wholes are composed of parts
>
Actually, "whole" and "part" are categories composed by the observing mind, and are scientifically unacknowledged as such.
>
> [2] it is possible to attain an objective perspective wrt an observed
> process
>
No, since the 1927 Copenhagen Interpretation of Quantum Physics, the goal has been to correlate our perceptions and achieve intersubjective consensus, "objective" and "perspective" being mutually contradictory.
>
> [3] the findings of science will eventually [or can, in principle]
> encompass the whole of reality
>
No, science has fully accepted the phenomenological dictum that any object of worldly perception is inexhaustible (open to perception from an unlimited number of distinct perspectives).
>
> [4] features of the world which are real [or at least significant]
> can be measured and expressed quantitatively.
>
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, that one can not simultaneously measure an electron's motion and position beyond a certain degree determined by their product, flies in the face of this assertion.
>
> [5] the scientific endeavour is devoid of bias and assumptions.
>
This is an ideal to be ceaselessly striven for, but as such, every practicing scientist knows that it is not a reality which inheres.
>
> ...if, as you suppose, whatever does not question its assumptions is
> not science, then I would suggest that little or no science has ever
> been done.
>
I would suggest that much science has been done, but, as your flawed and superficial criticisms more than amply illustrate, you have obviously given the subject little deep thought.
>
> -psypher
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