Re: MD Sam's Eudaimonia

From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: Fri Aug 19 2005 - 08:39:51 BST

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    Hi David,
    That was Ian, not me.

    Sam

    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "David M" <davidint@blueyonder.co.uk>
    To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
    Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 9:28 PM
    Subject: Re: MD Sam's Eudaimonia

    >> Nature IS physics IS MoQ IS good quality science IS the best
    >> explanation of anything; There is nothing else. MoQ highlights (and
    >> almost solves) things missing from "current" (SOMist) physics and
    >> science. As a "science" physics is by definition always expanding and
    >> updating itself. Looking at the most philosophical of modern
    >> scientists, and the most scientific of modern philosophers, everyone
    >> seems to recognise the SAME explanatory gaps, and the proposals for
    >> plugging them look remarkably similar to me from the MoQ perspective.
    >> A perspective which no modern philosophers and scientists seem to
    >> have, despite the fact that physics learned almost a century ago that
    >> SOMist objectivity is for the birds. Look at my posts on scientists
    >> not adopting their own best explanations as everyday common sense -
    >> after Deutsch.
    >
    >
    > Hi Sam
    >
    > Not sure what your last bit is saying. There is a lot in the philosophy of
    > science that sounds close to MOQ at the moment such as John Dupre,
    > Roy Bhaskar, Prigogine, and Nicholas Maxwell. I do agree that science and
    > phil of
    > science have been slow to see the implications of the death of SOM,
    > determinism, essentialism and reductionism. But I think the turn is now
    > taking place.
    >
    > regards
    > David M
    >
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