And you found some in that document?  Really?

On Sep 25, 2021, at 1:23 PM, thompnicks...@gmail.com wrote:


Naw!  It is about what we do about the presumptions to which we are blind that 
blind us.

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Nick Thompson
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From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of Marcus Daniels
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This just takes us back to is vs. ought.   If one is preoccupied with how the 
universe ought to be, then one is less inclined to observe and measure how it 
is and consider what the evidence means.  They split off to notions like Mind 
and God and other claptrap.  It is a disability to their comprehension of 
things.  That is why they are torturing their dilemma and their identity.   The 
conclusion is both simple and painful to accept.

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Dear Colleagues,

Because of an interest some of you expressed in Islamic science, I ran down the 
text linked below.  It is an entire book, and I have read only the first 
chapter, but I found that fascinating.  It is a sort of airing of linen 
concerning the role of science in the modern Islamic world that tracks in  
interesting ways the recent American ambivalence about science.   This first 
chapter is both unsettling and very familiar at the same time.

http://traditionalhikma.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Islam-Science-Muslims-and-Technology-Seyyed-Hossein-Nasr-in-Conversation-with-Muzaffar-Iqbal-2009.pdf

Ok, just to give you sense of one of the places it leaves me:  If the fault of 
western science is that it is laced with  unacknowledged western values, what 
would a science that acknowledged its values look like.  I have argued that the 
science we practice is absurdly dualistic (given that we have only one source 
of information).  But it is unclear to me how “dualism” is a value.  Is the 
“rape of nature” and all that follows implicit in dualism?  I wish I could 
claim that if I turn you all into monists, you will all become wind=turbine 
fanatics, but I don’t think that’s the case.   Do values guide what we do or 
are they just the heavy artillery that we muster to convince others to do what 
we have done?

See what you think?



Nick

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