Well, there is a very particular and specific reason for that (humorous) way of saying it being very truthful. It's that environments thrive by housing diverse *differently organized* things that independently exploit each other's differences. If you don't see the cognitive dissonances, you're simply not going to see much of what's happening at all. That's a genuine major reason why science has trouble understanding, or just even seeing, the emergence and interactions of things that make different sense, our habit of pasting over it by *making sense* of anything that is inconsistent with our models. I think that's very close to Rosen's complaint and observation that science is limited in the kinds of questions it can ask by avoiding divergent sequences in mathematics.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 5:21 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Young but distant gallaxies Thanks Phil. I also consider myself slightly mad (hopefully interesting at times); who wouldn't be living in the present state of the world. When I was in the UN, we used to say, when speaking of the complexities of developing nations, "if you are not confused, you are not thinking clearly." And as an environmentalist, I also tend to analyze without resort to mathematics and look for trends and observed emergence. cheers Paul ************** Psssst...Have you heard the news? There's a new fashion blog, plus the latest fall trends and hair styles at StyleList.com. (http://www.stylelist.com/trends?ncid=aolsty00050000000014)
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