[lit-ideas] Re: [lit-ideas] Re: [lit-ideas] Re: [lit-ideas] Le Pesa nteur et la Gr âce
- From: Michael Chase <goya@xxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 10:59:04 -0700
Le 11 ao=FBt 04, =E0 11:32, Mike Geary a =E9crit :
> I wish you guys would restate your initial positions. I know that's=20=
> asking
> a lot and I should have been paying attention earlier, and no I'm=20
> going to
> go dig it up in the archives. I THINK Paul is saying that attempts to
> popularize the ideas of quantum physics through comparisons to=20
> popularized
> notions of Taoism yield neither good Taoism nor good science. I think=20=
> Mike
> is saying who the hell is Paul to tell us what's real and what is not.=20=
> I
> could be wrong, and in fact I probably am, but that's what it sounds=20=
> like
> and I'd like know if that is so.
M.C. Yeah, that's about it as far as I'm concerned. But not just Paul:=20=
by what rights does *anybody* prescribe to us what reality is? The best=20=
writers on physics remind us constantly that what they're proposing are=20=
mere hypotheses, which might very well be proved wrong by further=20
scientific developments. Hell, if Newton and Einstein can be wrong,=20
where's the shame?
What I object to is dogmatism, of any variety.
Best, the other Mike.
>
>
>
Michael Chase
(goya@xxxxxxxxxxx)
CNRS UPR 76
7, rue Guy Moquet
Villejuif 94801
France
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