Magnus Berg (qmgb@bull.se)
Wed, 11 Mar 1998 14:26:33 +0100
Hi Donny, just a quick one.
> You're certainly right about the theory being primary. My rule of
> thumb is this: It is
> most helpful to stop thinking of science as a window into the mind of God
> ("This is how the world is regardless of what you or I or anyone know,
> say, think, feel, or care about it!") and think of it insted as a way in
> which we talk to one-another. Clearly it is the latter before it can be
> anything else. Science is a social enterprise. And as such it is also a
> moral one -- there is a right way it is done and a wrong way. It is a
> channel of comunication, the truth-value of which depends on whether it is
> open or closed.
Some hi-Q thoughts here, thanks. I'm curious about the communication channel.
Do you think SETI (Search for Extra Terrestrial Intelligence) research
is futile?
> A fact is the result of a proof. It's existance depends on the
> proof -- which is inherently social/moral. W/o society there are no proofs
> and w/o proofs there are no facts. How does that strike you?
As a good example of intellectual/social interlevel dependency.
Magnus
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