Interleaved...
John Mikes wrote:
Hi, Colin,
I enjoyed your diatribe. (From time to time I accept some of your
ideas and even include them into my ways of thinking - which may be a
praise or a threat).
Question: Could you briefly identify your usage of "science" - even
"scientist"?
The following is the /measured, average/ generic behaviour which
captures the basic common factors of scientific behaviour across all
physical science disciplines:
/t_n /
The natural world in /< insert context>/ behaves as follows: /<insert
behaviour>/
1.1
/t_0 /
The natural world in /< the context of a human being scientific about
the natural world >/ behaves as follows: /< to create and manage the
members of a set T of statements of type t_n , each of which is a
statement predictive of a natural regularity in a specific context in
the natural world external to and independent of the human arrived at
through the process of critical argument and that in principle can be
refuted through the process of experiencing evidence of the regularity>/
1.2
T =
{/t_0 /, /t_1 /, /t_2 /, ... ,/ t_n /, ... /t_N-1 /, /t_N /}
1.3
**The 'natural world' in this particular instance, is 'the scientist'.
*This is a measurement, not a guess. You empirically sample human
scientists and average across all sciences. /t_0 /is is what you get.*
Behaviour according to /t_0 / is fundamentally prevented from ever
explaining and observer because it presupposes an observer. (that is
'experiencing evidence')
So, /t_0 / is what we actually do. What we _should do_ to explain an
observer is a whole other area. It is the difference between the two
activities that I spoke of in the original 'diatribe' . When does
observation and criticism become diatribe? :-)
cheers
colin
(sometimes I consider an 'average' (=multitude of) scientist
succumbing to *_conventional _*ideas called 'scientific' and working
within that conventional world-view we get in schools).
And thanks for mentioning religion.
Best regards
John M
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