Le 03-août-06, à 23:05, John M a écrit :
> Are we reinventing the religion? Yes. Now, it is not that science is suddenly so clever that it can solve the problem in religion. It is (justifiably assuming comp) that we can approach some religion's problem with the modesty inherent in the scientific attitude, and then deduce testable facts. That scientific attitude has ALWAYS been in conflict, of course, with all form of scientism or religionism or whatever based on authoritative arguments. It is fair to say that Aristotelism has probably saved the observation of nature from the influence of such authoritative arguments, but it has saved only that, and I think it could perhaps be time to dare, at least, reformulate unsolved old question. Comp gives an opportunity to do that. It clearly provides the tools. As Rudy Rucker, Judson Webb, Paul Benacerraf, and others have already shown, notably, is that computer science and mathematical logic makes it possible to develop theories putting light on those questions. About the nature of "matter", Comp, then, appears to go more in the direction of Plato and Plotinus than Aristotle. Is that even astonishing? Bruno http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
