At around 16/7/06 11:11 pm, Doyle Saylor wrote:
>
> Is health more important than cognition? Cognition means doing some
> sort of mental work. So I would say yes work is more important than
> the static 'health' of individuals. The work allows us to define
> 'health'. We ought to focus if you want us to have a goal for spending
> public money to develop the whole world. Public Health being a subset
> of the whole social commitment developing the whole world requires.
> Care to explore this Ravi?
>
Its a bit beyond me, I am afraid. I will note though that I am not
saying health is more important than cognition, etc. I do think however
that a decent part of the amount of public money that is spent on
research of some sort or the other that falls under physics/astrophysics
would probably be better spent on public health. If it turns out that
spending on public health implies spending under a larger superset, I
see no issue there, other than to mention that astrophysics (IMHO)
clearly cannot be called such a superset.
--ravi
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