Re: virus: religion

Marie Foster (mfos@ieway.com)
Mon, 20 Apr 1998 18:11:26 -0700


> Newtonian physics was never designed to answer a question about what the
> world IS; it just answers questions about what the world DOES. (indeed,
> most of the sciences could be described this way)
>

Hmmm... I will have to take your word on that one until I dig out some of my
old notes from many moons ago when I was a student... sigh.. I think that this
slight wrinkle does not really detract from the fact that we need to do a whole
lot of unlearning before we can come up with an integrated view of quantum
reality and Newtonian reality.

> > Life may be nothing but a list of choices... I don't know.
> > But I hope that there is more than that.
>
> Could you be more specific? I, for one, would add that our ability to
> *change* the options from which we have to choose is very important, but
> I'm wondering if you had something else in mind.
>

That statement was a final futile retort... :) But as far as the list goes,
pehaps a multidimensonal array would be better... We are making it up as we go
along if we are doing it right anyway...

> ERiC

--
Marie

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