Re: virus: Four Principles Digest

Drakir (jonesr@gatwick.geco-prakla.slb.com)
Wed, 09 Apr 1997 13:54:27 +0100


Reed Konsler wrote:
>
> From: Drakir <jonesr@gatwick.geco-prakla.slb.com>
> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 1997 15:26:19 +0100
>
> Reed Konsler wrote:
> > There are certianly more "levels" Perhaps I mean to say that we will discover
> > that there is a hierarchy of "stages" between level-2 and level-3. Or perhaps
> > level 3 is a misguided crutch, like Maxwell's concept of aether as a
> >medium for
> > electromagnetic waves. The aether turned out to be unneccesary...it was
> > Maxwell's
> > equations that were important and that are still at the core of the science
> > meme-complex.
>
> I would say that it's better to say that the "potential" for more levels
> exists.
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>
> Point taken but I disagree.

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree.

> I would argue the exact opposite: There are "more levels" to our understanding,
> by definition, of any subject.

I'm sorry, I don't like the idea of having levels of unknown things.
There can be more unknown things, but in my own definition, they cannot
be known levels of unknow things. It's a contradiction.

Drakir

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