Author: Fernando Villegas
Date: 08:35:19 11/08/00
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This discussion has became mixed with too many things, but between them it seems to me some people here agreed to make of me the old fashion guy that does not understand these subtilities about how science is going on and how worlds of values can be so different. I know it very well. I am sociologist by trainning. I have read every antropologist book about the real or supposed wisedom of traditional cultures. So please do not consider myself as somebody that cannot understand what a paradigm is, do not say that I am a man of "normal science", one that prefer nukes to arrows, etc. Too much confusion. I am sure confusion is not just another narrowminded perspective from me. Sorry, I believe in logic and clear thinking. So, to begin with, this was not a discussion about what we like or not, what is wise or not, what is likeable or not. I do not like nukes, but I believe they are a more powerfull weapon than arrows. That's a matter of fact. I do not even say it is wise to have or use them. That kind of reasonning goes beyond the field of material reality. And I am not saying what gambit is respect new or old paradigms in chess programmings. My only point is: behind all the worlds man can create with his pown values, views, parameters, etc, there is a real one that has the last word in the realm of matter, phisics, biology and so on. You can evaluate as you want how preferable is for a hunting culture the use of bows and arrows, I agree, but that does not change the fact of the implicit far superior science behind the nuhke, the far superior power of it, etc. The use of it, the fabrication of it, that's another matter. That's a matter of culture. fernando
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