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GLENN:How could science depend on lower level patterns for its 'ends'
>and still be called a higher level pattern?
Hi Glenn,
I think it is still being debated whether causality is something our minds
impose on the world or not. Without being sure I think it is fair for Pirsig
to question scientific truths as being completely objective. When Carl Jung
tried to introduce theories of acausal relationships in psychology it was "too
messy" for a culture that values causal relationships. . I do think there is
cultural variation in how we approach causal and acausal relationships.
And when Pirsig says science is not independent from social level I see that
he does not have this "causal bias" that seems so pervasive in the scientific
world. This doesn't say that scientific truths are subjective, it is saying we
can't know if they are completely objective.
Erin
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