Re: virus: Angelica de Meme
Tony Hindle (t.hindle@joney.demon.co.uk)
Fri, 4 Apr 1997 02:09:18 +0100
In message <334408AC@smtpgw.ccc.phelpsd.com>, "Wright, James 7929"
<Jwright@phelpsd.com> writes
>
>Tony Hindle wrote:
>>>(the best existing telescope is not of sufficient power to see planets
>in the >>Magellanic Cloud nebulas),<<
>> How do you know they are there then?<
>
>I do not know, you are perfectly correct; it is a statistical assumption
>on my part, based on the 9+ planets in this star system, a few scattered
>here and there with nearby stars that have been observed, and the
>extrapolation that if there are many stars in the Magellanic Clouds, then
>at least a few of them SHOULD, statistically speaking, have a planet
>orbiting them.
Heres a thought. do the (increasingly precise) observations
science makes help us by allowing us to formulate theories to explain
what we see. Or are they just more data to explain?.
What state would science be in if there was no radiation coming
from anywhere in the skies except for the sun and the moon?
Thinking about this is illuminating regarding the nature of
science.
>
>>Sorry. I have a working definition of objective reality which suffices
>>for this context I think. Objective reality is that part of the universe
>>which via science can tune in different people's subjective reality.
>
>The use of tune in puzzles me.
I see objective reality as the omnipresent radio station, to
which all creatures of the cosmos can Tune into, so we have something we
can talk to one another about. Wow I love this quote Im putting it in a
sig. file now.
> Does objective reality vary based on the
>perception of the subject?
No. I see objective reality being translated by each subject
into that subject's reality. (subjective reality, the first thing I ever
learned from Tim was this distinction.)
> Or is objective reality manipulating the
>observer through their subjective observation process? Feel free to
>explain, please, since both sides of this question have already been
>defended here, and you might be able to contribute a new perspective.
I present this as my candidate new perspective. My writebyte to
name it is my sig. file.
Tony Hindle.
I see objective reality as the omnipresent radio station,
to which all creatures of the cosmos can Tune into, so we have
something in common that we can talk to one another about when we meet.
...The Reverend C. Darwin.