Re: virus: Axioms versus falsification of theories

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Fri, 19 Sep 97 19:37:44 -0400

>Hmmm... is <faith> then the "original sin" of Virus? Is it the necessary
>act of transgression that casts one out of the garden and its innocence
>("for they were naked and unafraid") and in the real world of complexity
>and choice? And the need for redemption?

"...it is all over with priests and gods when man becomes scientific.
Moral: science is the forbidden as such -- it alone is forbidden. Science
is the first sin, seed of all sin, the original sin. This alone is
morality. 'Thou shalt not know' -- the rest follows."
- Nietzsche, "Antichrist"

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