Eric wrote: > " Do you think that your (and others') atttraction to behaviorism > arises from an envy of physicists' ability to surprise people with > non-intuitive claims?" > > Now THAT'S a great question! > > One of intellectual life's great challenges is distinguishing between > things that are unintuitive because they are wrong, things that are > unintuitive because they are being explained poorly, and things that > are unintuitive merely because our intuition sucks. :- )
And I would add "unintuitive because our experience has not tuned/trained us to recognize/appreciate/intuit the reality presented". Mary was reading out loud from a David Stendall-Wrath collection of essays a few weeks ago and he (apparently) stated (my paraphrase?): "Truth is what the intellect experiences when it apprehends reality; Beauty is what the spirit experiences when it apprehends reality". - Steve - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
