On 5/9/06, Charlie Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Exactly what I'm saying. Humans have always had that - it's precisely what makes us human. :) So when Nick says "prior to the invention of scientific methods... ...it must have been a weird, weird world" he's right. It was weird 'cause there weren't any people in it. That humans have spent most of prehistory and history coming up with wrong answers is fine - that's how it works. We're gradually getting closer to the right answers.
The scientific method is the only way to learn anything... the only way anybody learns anything is the scientific method. It's a circular argument. If these statements were true, how would we ever learn anything that isn't true? How does error get into our brains if we cannot learn things in ways that are unscientific? And if we *can* learn things in ways that are unscientific, why can't some of them be true? This mailing list is rather unscientific, in my opinion (not that I have rigorously tested this hypothesis). Yet here we are. Nick -- Nick Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Messages: 408-904-7198 _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
