Douglas Roberts wrote at 04/25/2013 10:16 AM: > The intent was to produce a pragmatic perspective, not a philosophical > one. By avoiding the telling of escapist fantasy-world fairy tails in > the first place, there will be less untruth to deal with at later stages > in life.
You're talking about a manipulation that might take generations to realize an effect. That's not very pragmatic. A pragmatic perspective is to look at the population we have right now and try to design our manipulation based on that population and whatever evidence we have now. If and when we can tease out some local (temporally and spatially) cause-effect relationships, then we can begin extrapolating to 30-80 years out, like you want to do. So, the question remains, is there a medical benefit to bursting the beliefs of a patient? And more refined, does the condition of the patient matter? E.g. I can see how bursting my friend, who is getting accupuncture for her neck pain, might help her. But how about a 50 year old prostate cancer patient with a good prognosis? Versus a 98 year old emphysema patient? -- =><= glen e. p. ropella I had my arm around a sundial ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
