QWAN - Quality Without A Name - from Christopher Alexander, most prominently in 
his book *The Timeless Way of Building*. Got into Software world via the 
patterns community and the Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides book, *Design 
Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.*

Alexander claimed that some architecture exhibited QWAN and that it was 
cross-cultural and universally recognized. His last work — the four volume 
Nature of Order — replaced QWAN with "Liveness" which arises from fifteen 
properties: e.g. centers, boundaries, deep interlock and ambiguity, etc.

davew


On Tue, Mar 17, 2020, at 4:34 PM, Frank Wimberly wrote:
> Who knew this:
> 
> Qwan dictionary definition | qwan defined - YourDictionary
> qwan. Acronym. Quality Without A Name - in computer programming QWAN refers 
> to a more metaphysical attribute that expresses elegancy of code.
> 
> ?
> ---
> Frank C. Wimberly
> 505 670-9918
> Santa Fe, NM
> 
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020, 8:52 AM Steven A Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dave -

>> I myself am having an ineffable experience just now, as my drive through the 
>> big-rock country has taken on a Mad Max quality (simile borrowed from a 
>> friend on his own Hellride back up the coast of CA after retrieving his 
>> college son, with counties closing down behind him as he rolls through). 
>> FWIW, I was pretty close to your brother's place on this trip but didn't 
>> give over to the thought of stopping by and asking if I could help dig an 
>> extra bunker or two. Bunker rhymes with hunker.

>> I think your enumeration of "reasons" for "cannot express in words" covers 
>> the space well, but as a self-referential example naturally fails for many 
>> of the reasons you cite. It is rather concise to reference "knowing ABOUT" 
>> vs "knowing", the biggest failing I find amongst our discussions here on 
>> FriAM... perhaps convenings of the Mother Church itself do better?

>> I am also reminded of JIddu Krishnamurti's "cousin", also a Krishnamurti 
>> who, when asked of Jiddu's knowledge/wisdom/perception reluctantly replied 
>> "Jiddu has held the sugar cube in the palm of his hand, but he has not 
>> tasted it".

>> Context;SignVsSignifier;Incompleteness;Paradox;EtCetera

>> We have words/phrases LIKE ineffable;QWAN;je ne sais quois "for a reason" 
>> though circularly, said reason cannot be described, merely "gestured in the 
>> direction of"?

>> Carry On,

>>  - Steve

>> PS. The Sheriff shut down Durango just as we slipped into a motel here and 
>> will be raiding *their* City Market before we drive toward home... Gas tank 
>> is fullish, within range I think, though fueling is not closed, just 
>> virtually everything else. I will check for TP there out of curiosity, but 
>> we have a dozen rolls at home unless our house-sitter snatched them all for 
>> HER hoard. Time to start raking, drying, sorting the cottonwood leaves 
>> methinks! Are you sorry you are in Weesp rather than Utah for this incipient 
>> "Jackpot"?

>> On 3/17/20 4:16 AM, Prof David West wrote:
>>> Hi Nick,
>>> 
>>> You are correct: I assert that you can know things of which you cannot 
>>> speak; but there is still too much ambiguity in that statement. It would be 
>>> more correct to say: some experiences are not expressible in words. I am 
>>> making a narrow, but ubiquitous, claim — ubiquitous, because all of us have 
>>> a ton of experiences that we cannot express in words.
>>> 
>>> Another dimension of precision, "cannot express in words" can mean: 1) we 
>>> do not have enough words; 2) we do not have the right words; 3) any 
>>> expression in words fails the capture the whole of the experience; 4) 
>>> translating the experience to words creates a conflict (e.g. a paradox) in 
>>> the words that was not present in the experience; 5) words are mere symbols 
>>> (pointers or representations) and never the "thing" itself (Korzibski); 6) 
>>> missing context; and/or 7) the grammar of the language mandates untrue or 
>>> less than true assertions. Probably a few other ways that language fails.
>>> 
>>> This is not to deny the possibility of a language that could express some 
>>> of these experiences. We have myths of such languages; e.g. The language of 
>>> the birds that Odin used to communicate with Huggin and Muninn. Maybe there 
>>> is some element of fact behind the myths?
>>> 
>>> It does not preclude using words in a non-representational way to 
>>> communicate. Words can be evocative, recall to present experience, 
>>> experiences past. Poetry does this. Nor does it preclude non-verbal, e.g. 
>>> painting, as an evocative means of "bring to mind" experiences. (There is a 
>>> lot of evidence that evocation can bring to mind experience that the 
>>> construct called Nick did not itself experience — evidence that led Jung to 
>>> posit the "collective unconscious.")
>>> 
>>> It is also quite possible to talk *_about_* experience rather than *_of_* 
>>> experience. Mystics to this all the time, but always with the caveat that 
>>> what is said *_about_* IT is *_not_* IT.
>>> 
>>> A specific example: Huxley talks about "the Is-ness" of flower and the 
>>> variability of Time. Heidegger and his followers have written volumes 
>>> *_about_* Is-ness and Time. One more: Whitehead and process philosophers 
>>> have written volumes *_about_* a dynamic, in constant flux, Reality; that I 
>>> have experience *_of_*.
>>> 
>>> davew
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Mar 16, 2020, at 11:10 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>> Yeah, Dave, I screwed it up by mixing up “speaking of” and “knowing”.

>>>> 

>>>> I would never expect that you would sign up for a conversation about that 
>>>> of which we cannot know. But, others at friam, if I understood them 
>>>> correctly, HAVE tried to engage me in such a conversation. 

>>>> 

>>>> I think you would agree that that of which we cannot speak, we cannot 
>>>> speak. [Tautology]

>>>> 

>>>> And you also would agree that which we cannot know we cannot know. 
>>>> [Another tautology}

>>>> 

>>>> And I think it also follows that we cannot speak of what we cannot know, 
>>>> since we would have no basis on which to speak of it. 

>>>> Well, except possibly to say we do not know it, perhaps. I don’t want to 
>>>> die on that hill.

>>>> 

>>>> 

>>>> But you insist that the inverse is not true. We can and do know things of 
>>>> which we cannot speak. So we might be having a conversation about how to 
>>>> move such things into the domain of speechable. Your goal, in that case, 
>>>> would be as hunter, sent out into the domain of the unspeakable to capture 
>>>> some specimen from that world and drag it back. Think, again, Castenada.

>>>> 

>>>> Or, we might be having a conversation about how we might transfer 
>>>> knowledge in ways other than speech. You giving me a dose of some 
>>>> substance that you have already had a dose of would seem to be of this 
>>>> second sort. Think Don Juan.

>>>> 

>>>> Hastily,

>>>> 

>>>> Nick

>>>> PS. Any philosopher that holds that “knowledge” can only applied to true 
>>>> belief would not understand this conversation because I think we share the 
>>>> idea that there is probably no such thing as true belief in that sense and 
>>>> that therefore you and I are always talking about provisional knowledge, 
>>>> unless we are talking about an aspiration we might share to arrive at that 
>>>> upon which the community of inquiry will converge in the very long run. 

>>>> 

>>>> 

>>>> Nicholas Thompson

>>>> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

>>>> Clark University

>>>> [email protected]

>>>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

>>>> 

>>>> 

>>>> 

>>>> 

>>>> *From:* Friam <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Prof David West
>>>> *Sent:* Monday, March 16, 2020 2:58 PM
>>>> *To:* [email protected]
>>>> *Subject:* Re: [FRIAM] science privilege — fork from acid epistemology
>>>> 

>>>> 

>>>> Nick,

>>>> 

>>>> The only time that I have said something is "unknowable" is referencing 
>>>> complex systems that some variables and some relations among variables in 
>>>> a complex system are literally unknowable. The context for such a 
>>>> statement is computing / software / and software engineering with a heavy 
>>>> timeline element. Pretty sure it has never appeared on this list.

>>>> 

>>>> What I do say, and will repeat, there are things you can know that you 
>>>> cannot articulate in language. There is Experience of which you cannot 
>>>> speak.

>>>> 

>>>> I am pretty sure my assertion is 180 degree opposite of what you think I 
>>>> may have been saying. Rest assured that I would never assert that there 
>>>> are things that are unknowable.

>>>> 

>>>> What needs care, and I have tried to do this, is to consistently use the 
>>>> same vocabulary — in this case experience. So I say there are experiences 
>>>> that cannot be put into words. Some of those experiences are worth 
>>>> experiencing.

>>>> 

>>>> You said "(Or speak of them which is the same thing.)" Equating "knowing" 
>>>> with "speaking" is an error. Using "knowing" and "experiencing" as 
>>>> synonyms is not.

>>>> 

>>>> davew

>>>> 

>>>> On Sun, Mar 15, 2020, at 5:39 PM, [email protected] wrote:

>>>>> Dave,

>>>>> 

>>>>> Thanks for this. And it goes very well most of the way, but there is one 
>>>>> spot where you persistently misunderstand me, and so I will go directly 
>>>>> to that:

>>>>> 

>>>>> > Let's say, I say to you that "to speak of that of which we cannot

>>>>> > speak" is non-sense.

>>>>> 

>>>>> DW**It is no, everyone has experienced that of which they cannot speak. 
>>>>> You can know something and you can know about something. You can know the 
>>>>> experience of high or low insulin levels, you can know a lot about 
>>>>> insulin and diabetes. You can speak about the latter knowledge, you 
>>>>> cannot speak the former.

>>>>> 

>>>>> PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BECAUSE I WANT TO GET THIS NAILED DOWN TODAY. The 
>>>>> claim that I am referring to, which I have heard made by my colleague 
>>>>> dualists, is not that there are things that I know nothing of, or that 
>>>>> you and I know nothing of, or that at any finite grouping of human beings 
>>>>> or cognitive systems know nothing of. It is the claim that there are 
>>>>> things about which it is impossible to know, period, and that yet, we 
>>>>> should try to know them. (Or speak of them, which is the same thing.) 
>>>>> (Damn! I was just induced to do it!) That is non-sense. Or a paradox. Or 
>>>>> both.

>>>>> 

>>>>> Now you might (others have) insisted that while the statement is a 
>>>>> logical paradox (I would call paradoxes non-sense), the contemplation of 
>>>>> paradoxes might lead me to knowledge. I worry this might even be one of 
>>>>> the methods you prescribe when you speak of a deep dive. If so, I guess I 
>>>>> have a right to ask (at least in Western Practice) what is the theory 
>>>>> that tells you that these methods will lead to truth or wisdom, etc. 

>>>>> 

>>>>> Eric may enter the conversation at this point and start to talk about 
>>>>> castles in the sky. We can build castles in the sky, and talk about them, 
>>>>> and even argue, from text, or logic, about the color of the third turret 
>>>>> to the right on the north wall. And we might find a lot of inner peace 
>>>>> and sense of coherence by engaging in this sort of “knowledge gathering” 
>>>>> with others. But I think, if he does, his claim will be irrelevant. 
>>>>> Knowledge about castles in the sky, however deeply codified, is fake 
>>>>> knowledge in the sense that it lacks the essential element of claims of 
>>>>> knowledge, which is the claim that, in the fullness of time, the arc of 
>>>>> inquiry bends to the position that I or you are now asserting. Someday, 
>>>>> people will actually walk in its corridors and admire its battlements. 
>>>>> Kings and queens will reighn, here. That is what a castle IS. 

>>>>> 

>>>>> Later in the day, when I have gotten control of my morning covid19 
>>>>> anxiety, I may try to lard your message below, but right now, I hope to 
>>>>> straighten out this particular misunderstanding. When I speak of “we” who 
>>>>> cannot know, I am NOT referring to you and or me or any other finite 
>>>>> population of knowers, but to what can NOT known by all cognitive systems 
>>>>> in the far reach of time. I still assert, despite your patient and kind 
>>>>> argumentation, that to speak of “our knowing” THAT is nonsense. Actually, 
>>>>> to speak of NOT knowing it, is nonsense, also. It’s just logic, right? 
>>>>> Mathematics. Tautology, even. Even Frank would agree. RIGHT?

>>>>> 

>>>>> Only when we have settled on that logical point does it make sense to go 
>>>>> on and talk about how you, and I and Glen and Marcus are going to come to 
>>>>> know, that which we do not now know. 

>>>>> 

>>>>> Nick

>>>>> Nicholas Thompson

>>>>> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

>>>>> Clark University

>>>>> [email protected]

>>>>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

>>>>> 

>>>>> 

>>>>> 

>>>>> -----Original Message-----

>>>>> From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Prof David West

>>>>> Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2020 5:54 AM

>>>>> To: [email protected]

>>>>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] science privilege — fork from acid epistemology

>>>>> 

>>>>> comments embedded.

>>>>> 

>>>>> On Sat, Mar 14, 2020, at 5:26 PM, [email protected] wrote:

>>>>> > Dave and Glen,

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > It's great to see your two frames coming into adjustment. At the risk

>>>>> > of taking the discussion back to absurdity, let me try to express, in

>>>>> > laughably simple terms, what I hear you guys agreeing to.

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > I have been taught a way of thinking about science that is western. 

>>>>> > Like all ways of thinking it both sights me and blinds me. Nobody

>>>>> > knows everything; everybody knows what they know. Nobody should

>>>>> > presume to judge what they don't know. I don't know Eastern ways of

>>>>> > thinking. I have no basis on which to claim privilege for my western

>>>>> > ways of thinking about science.

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > Now, as a person who has always delighted in attending discussions

>>>>> > among people who do not agree, and always fascinated by the

>>>>> > possibility of convergence of opinion, what do I do when Dave (or Kim,

>>>>> > or others) highlight the fact that there are whole ways of thinking

>>>>> > that I just do not know anything about?

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > One way would be to shrug. AW heck, you go your way, I will go mine. I

>>>>> > can't do that. Shrugging is just not in my natire. I need to try to

>>>>> > integrate discordant ideas held by people I respect. Now, it is

>>>>> > possible that need is, in itself, Western. And what an eastern

>>>>> > philosophy would tell me is to put aside that need.

>>>>> 

>>>>> DW** Eastern ways of thinking would tell you to do a deep dive into that 
>>>>> need. You will never, so they would say, truly understand your partial, 
>>>>> Western, way of knowing absent the ability to integrate that way of 
>>>>> thinking into a holistic mode of thinking.**DW

>>>>> 

>>>>> Often

>>>>> > developmental psychologists among my acquaintances have asserted that

>>>>> > my quest for agreement is a kind of invasion of their mental

>>>>> > territory, that each person is entitled to his own individual and

>>>>> > pristine experience.

>>>>> 

>>>>> DW** and Eastern ways would state that all "individual" and "pristine 
>>>>> experience" is purely an illusion, but there is a Reality behind that 
>>>>> illusion (no, not a Cartesian dualism — still maintaining an experience 
>>>>> monism here) — a One (shared) behind the ones (individual).**DW

>>>>> 

>>>>> 

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > Let's say you come to me and tell me that you hold in your hand an

>>>>> > instrument of great wisdom, a revolver. And if I will only put it to

>>>>> > my head, and pull the trigger, I will have knowledge and understanding

>>>>> > beyond anything I can now imagine. I would be reluctant to follow

>>>>> > that advice. Is that western?

>>>>> 

>>>>> DW**No that is universally human common sense. And, as I am not in the 
>>>>> habit of encouraging people to kill themselves, such an offer would never 
>>>>> be extended.**DW

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > Let's say, I say to you that "to speak of that of which we cannot

>>>>> > speak" is non-sense.

>>>>> 

>>>>> DW**It is no, everyone has experienced that of which they cannot speak. 
>>>>> You can know something and you can know about something. You can know the 
>>>>> experience of high or low insulin levels, you can know a lot about 
>>>>> insulin and diabetes. You can speak about the latter knowledge, you 
>>>>> cannot speak the former.

>>>>> 

>>>>> I am baking bread and just pulled the loaves out of the oven. I know when 
>>>>> I have kneaded the dough enough to get the consistence I want in the 
>>>>> final product but I cannot speak that knowledge. I can speak of it — 
>>>>> employing lots of metaphors — but cannot speak it or communicate it 
>>>>> directly**DW

>>>>> 

>>>>> To say, as an occasional member of the home

>>>>> > congregation occasionally says, "What if there is a world out there

>>>>> > which is totally beyond all forms of human understanding" is non-sense.

>>>>> > As Wittgenstein says, the beetle divides out. Is an Eastern

>>>>> > philosopher going to reply, "Ah Nick, such a paradox is not non-sense

>>>>> > but the beginning of wisdom."

>>>>> 

>>>>> DW**be careful of word games — be true to your experience monism. 
>>>>> Suppose, at my next FriAM I say to you, you know Nick there are 
>>>>> 'experiences' that are beyond 'understanding'. There are many ways to 
>>>>> interpret that sentence. I could be saying something like "You will 
>>>>> experience death. Do you understand it? Will you understand it once you 
>>>>> experience it? The latter is tough, because in your Western way of 
>>>>> thinking, death is the end and it is certain that "you" will no longer be 
>>>>> extant to understand anything. ——Interesting question: will "you" 
>>>>> actually experience death or is death a non experience because there is 
>>>>> no experiencer? —— The Tibetan Book of the Dead is premised on the 
>>>>> certainty that "you" will experience death, find it rather terrifying, 
>>>>> and could use some expert guidance on how to navigate the experience.

>>>>> 

>>>>> In stating that there is experience beyond understanding, I might be 
>>>>> merely asserting that there are no words or phrases that adequately 
>>>>> represent the totality of the experience and if 'understanding' requires 
>>>>> linguistic, symbolic, or algorithmic expression than 'understanding' is 
>>>>> impossible.

>>>>> 

>>>>> There are other possible "meanings" in the phrase "experience beyond 
>>>>> understanding," but for later. **DW

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > Or perhaps, the eastern philosopher would say, No, No, Nick, you have

>>>>> > it all wrong. If you seek that sense of convergence, go for it

>>>>> > directly. Don't argue with dave and Glen, hug them, drink with them,

>>>>> > play Russian roulette. What you seek cannot be found with words!

>>>>> 

>>>>> DW**You will have to play Russian Roulette by yourself, I'll not 
>>>>> participate. I will accept the hug and a drink. I'll even share a slice 
>>>>> of the warm bread I just made. Delicious even if I am the only one saying 
>>>>> so.

>>>>> 

>>>>> I am pretty certain the the revolver of which you speak is a euphemism 
>>>>> for psychedelics. If so, it is a particularly bad metaphor, one that 
>>>>> might express your fears — fears that ALL empirical evidence confirm are 
>>>>> unfounded — than it is of the actual use/experience. [Caveat: there are 
>>>>> some instances were the psychedelic provides a tipping point for a 
>>>>> psychological ill effect, and overdoses can damage the physiology — but 
>>>>> "ordinary" use of psylocibin, mescaline, DMT, and LSD cause no harm of 
>>>>> any form.]**DW

>>>>> 

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > If what we have encountered here is the limits of discourse, why are

>>>>> > we talking?

>>>>> 

>>>>> DW**The Limit of Discourse is, at minimum, when all possible permutations 
>>>>> of the 600,000 words in the Oxford English Dictionary, have been 
>>>>> exchanged and we still lack agreement/convergence. But, then we would 
>>>>> have to consider all the other Natural Languages (maybe even those like 
>>>>> the one found in the Voinich Manuscript), all of art and music, and body 
>>>>> language. Metaphor adds yet another dimension that would need to be taken 
>>>>> into consideration.**DW

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > Nick

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > Nicholas Thompson

>>>>> > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University

>>>>> > [email protected] https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > -----Original Message-----

>>>>> > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of u?l? ?

>>>>> > Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2020 8:28 AM

>>>>> > To: FriAM <[email protected]>

>>>>> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] science privilege — fork from acid epistemology

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > FWIW, I agree completely with your gist, if not with your pique. The

>>>>> > lost opportunity is implicit in the ebb and flow of collective

>>>>> > enterprises. Similar opportunity costs color the efforts of any large

>>>>> > scale enterprise. I can't blame science or scientists for their lost

>>>>> > opportunities because triage is necessary [†]. But there is plenty of

>>>>> > kinship for you out there. I saw this the other day:

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > Your Mind is an Excellent Servant, but a Terrible Master - David

>>>>> > Foster Wallace

>>>>> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsAd4HGJS4o

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > I'm tempted to dive into particulars on your examples (Vedic, Buddhist,

>>>>> > Hermetics). But my contributions would be laughable. I'll learn from

>>>>> > any contributions I hope others make. I've spent far too little of my

>>>>> > life in those domains.

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > [†] Both for the individual trying to decide what to spend their life

>>>>> > researching and the whole (as Wolpert points out

>>>>> > <https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/pub-archive/1476h/1476%20(Wolpert).pdf>).

>>>>> > Most of the prejudice I encounter doesn't seem mean-spirited, though.

>>>>> > Even virulent scientismists seem to be victims of their own, personally

>>>>> > felt, opportunity costs.

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > On 3/14/20 3:21 AM, Prof David West wrote:

>>>>> > > Glen, I really appreciate your response and insights.

>>>>> > >

>>>>> > > You are certainly correct that much, or most, of my pique is simply 
>>>>> > > impatience. But, I am here now, with these questions, and with a 
>>>>> > > limited window within which to be patient. Should my great 
>>>>> > > grandchildren have my interests, Science might serve them well, but 
>>>>> > > is is frustrating right now.

>>>>> > >

>>>>> > > Science is far more reflective that I generally give it credit for. 
>>>>> > > Your examples, save one, illustrate that. The one that I object to is 
>>>>> > > "assessing scientific literacy" which, based on limited exposure, 
>>>>> > > seems to be more of "checking to see if you are bright enough to 
>>>>> > > agree with us" than evaluating what it would mean to be 
>>>>> > > scientifically literate.

>>>>> > >

>>>>> > > A closely related, I think, topic is the push by computer science to 
>>>>> > > have "computational thinking" embedded in elementary and secondary 
>>>>> > > education as "essential." Computational thinking is exactly the wrong 
>>>>> > > kind of thinking as most of the critical things we need to think 
>>>>> > > about are not algorithmic in nature. The scientific and computational 
>>>>> > > part of the climate crisis is the easy part. figuring out the complex 
>>>>> > > social-cultural-economic-politcal answers to the problem is the hard 
>>>>> > > part and I doubt it is reducible to scientific thinking and 
>>>>> > > absolutely positive it is not amenable to computational thinking.

>>>>> > >

>>>>> > > Maybe when Hari Seldon has his psychohistory all worked out it will be

>>>>> > > different. :)

>>>>> > >

>>>>> > > It may very well be possible to develop a science of philosophy, but 
>>>>> > > it will require relinquishing what, again to me, appears to be a 
>>>>> > > double standard. Scientists are willing to wax philosophical about 
>>>>> > > quantum interpretations but would, 99 times out of a hundred, reject 
>>>>> > > out of hand any discussion of the cosmological philosophy in the 
>>>>> > > Vaisesika Sutras — despite the fact that that Schrodinger says the 
>>>>> > > idea for superposition came from the Upanishads.

>>>>> > >

>>>>> > > George Everest (the mountain is named after him) introduced Vedic 
>>>>> > > teachings on math and logic to George Boole, Augustus de Morgan, and 
>>>>> > > Charles Babbage; shaping the evolution of Vector Analysis, Boolean 
>>>>> > > Logic, and a whole lot of math behind computer science.

>>>>> > >

>>>>> > > One could make a very strong argument that most of the Science that

>>>>> > > emerged in England in the 1800-2000, including Newton, was derived

>>>>> > > from Vedic and some Buddhist philosophies. But try to get a Ph.D. in

>>>>> > > any science today with a dissertation proposal that incorporated

>>>>> > > Akasa. [The Vedas posited five elements as the constituents of the

>>>>> > > universe — Aristotle's four, earth, air, fire, water, plus Akasa,

>>>>> > > which is consciousness.]

>>>>> > >

>>>>> > > Swami Vivekananda once explained Vedic philosophical ideas about the 
>>>>> > > relationship between energy and matter to Nicholas Tesla. Tesla tried 
>>>>> > > for years to find the equation that Einstein came up with much later. 
>>>>> > > Try to get a research grant for something like that.

>>>>> > >

>>>>> > > A practical question: how would one go about developing a "science" 
>>>>> > > of the philosophy of Hermetic Alchemy and its 2500 years of 
>>>>> > > philosophical investigation. Information, perhaps deep insights, that 
>>>>> > > was tossed out the window simply because some pseudo-alchemists tried 
>>>>> > > to con people into thinking that lead could be turned into gold.

>>>>> > >

>>>>> > > Of course the proposal for developing such a science would have to be 
>>>>> > > at least eligible for grants and gaining tenure, or it is not, in a 
>>>>> > > practicial (take note Nick) sense.

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > 

>>>>> > --

>>>>> > ☣ uǝlƃ

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