Hi Alberto Were there ever genuinely naked questions? ie. Was there really a time when ideas were not framed by the exciting possibilities offered by the contemporary technology?
All the best --- Original Message --- From: "Alberto G. Corona" <agocor...@gmail.com> Sent: 29 September 2013 7:59 PM To: "everything-list" <everything-list@googlegroups.com> Subject: The canal effect I knew yesterday that the reason why Percival Lowel (and many others) saw canals -and life- in Mars is because at this time the Panama Canal was being constructed, and this novelty captivated the imagination of the people. everithing had a solution with a canal. And everything could be solved and explained with mechanics and electricity, the technology that helped to construct the channel. Therefore the Martians was an electric civilization that launched electric discharges. It is necessary to explain what I want to mean?. People throw in novel technologies and theories whatever they have unexplained or unsolved, but also their hopes. But at the end of the day these solutions vomit back what was put in with still new questions. The net effect is the rephrasing of the ancient questions with a new language, passed trough the filter of the solution that dominates the uthopic mind of the people. That language, the one of the particular science that dominates the landscape assures that the ancient questions are reduced to match the particular aspect that can fit in the theory. I personally prefer the original, naked questions as the first ones that though about it, as they appeared in their mind, without the filter of any theory. -- Alberto. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
