Glenn wrote:
That wrench is a special gift from science, and when someone
mistreats
it, you go and blame science.
DL writes: A gift from science? I may be wrong, but I thought
science was (as defined by Webster) "A branch of study concerned with
observation and classification of facts and esp. withobservation and
classification of facts and esp. with the establishment of verifiable
general laws" - science (it seems to me) doesn't create anything - it
is instead ONE way to observe and classify. Was the wheel a gift of
science? Feel free to edify me.
Glenn wrote:
In the course of a scientist's career he might spend years on a
single
problem or theory and suffer many wrong turns and false starts and
other auto metaphors (sorry, I'm tired). But when he finally succeeds
and gets famous and is written up in history books these experiences
are left out or skimmed over because these are boring and we go
straight to hearing about his "aha" experience. To the uninitiated
reader it seems as if the scientist was hit by a bolt of inspiration
at that moment and everything came to him, but he's really been
thinking about the problem so long and so hard that when the solution
comes he immediately knows it's right.
DL writes: The "aha phenomenom" (sp?) is an example of what happens
when one engages in non-linear thinking - sometimes when we take the
a
leads to be leads to c leads to d (etc) - what we end up with is
"predictable" - when we are able to take non-linear leaps, we become
open to ideas/solutions that aren't on the a-b-c-d path.
And in regards to the "beginner's mind" - for me, this has always
been
more of a state of mind that anyone can adopt (even someone well
versed in a subject) - it doesn't necessarily mean that because
someone is knowledgeable in a subject that they cannot adopt this
approach, but if they are too bound up in the conventional way of
thinking, answers that lie "outside the box" are likely to be missed.
Be Good.
Shalom
David Lind
Trick
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