(3) Is common practice in science. Scientists say that the universe is
made of 10-Dimensional vibrating superstrings. They can , after meditating
over the equations for decades, reveal this truth to us. But,
unfortunately, we the untrained cannot see it. Is it, therefore, bullshit?
Are you sayng the only real things are those things which any human,
regardless of education, can perceive. Are electrons real?
I know that isn't what you're arguing, Tad. The question I sincerely wish
you could answer is how do we exclude sciences--often requiring decades of
experience and training to understand and often culminating in
over-mystical theories like quantum mechanics, chaos, and
superstrings--from "bad" (3)-type chicanery? It seems to me that we rely
on our institutions to weed out the crap for us. But we recognize that the
institutions of science and government don't act according to their
mandate.
I think Objectivism, and science, provides a decent counter to authority
worship. But only if they don't become an authority, right? Otherwise
aren't they just another expression of MAIDS?
Reed
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Reed Konsler konsler@ascat.harvard.edu
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