rgro wrote: > I'm mostly with you guys, but wouldn't it be interesting to have a > really well-educated audiophile priest or rabbi chime in here with some > balancing thoughts on the place of faith in human societies? It's not > all just one big high-functioning computer out there....or is it?
Well, I'm no rabbi or priest, but I do think there is a place for -faith in one's life-. And hopefully in doing so, a better society. However, we do have to know the limits of faith. I see faith as giving us motivation, inspiration, drive, dreams, sense of morality and ultimately purpose. But these are high level subjective concepts along the lines of "what's your favourite musical genre?" or "what's your favourite book?" or "describe the most joyful think you have ever done" or "who do you love most in this world?" Perhaps science can one day elucidate the neural mechanisms for these concepts and ideas, but until then, nothing wrong with maintaining the wonder and joy around these subjective intangibles of what gives us our -personalities-. I think in a nutshell, this is Stephen Jay Gould's "NOMA" (Non-Overlapping Magisteria) concept as he puts it in the book '\"Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life\"' (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/034545040X/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=034545040X&linkCode=as2&tag=archsmusi-20&linkId=ZJ6SDFEMUJRKBRVC). Give to God what is God's and Science what is Science's... (At least in terms of framework for understanding and ways of knowing "truth".) And I think it's pretty fair to say that sound quality as rendered by technological machines is well within the "magisterium" of Science. :-) Archimago's Musings: (archimago.blogspot.com) A 'more objective' audiophile blog. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archimago's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2207 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=103842 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
