[Ron] Interesting how you made the point about faith. I particularly liked: "We decide what is right or wrong based on our intuitions, our emotional attachment to one set of concepts or another or our personal estimation of the probability that one view is not accurate than another. This then becomes a kind of belief in the face of a lack of reason or evidence for that belief. I like to call this a skip of faith. It bridges that gap of uncertainty by finding the shallowest and narrowest point at which to ford the river of doubt."
I also think that what defines the term is by what means one is willing to and be comfortable with, making that skip in certainty. [Krimel] You are right, comfort is a big issue. How much uncertainty can we tolerate. You can get by on purely emotional responses if all you care about is "good" or "bad". Any story will do. The tale of a giant dung beetle rolling the sun across the heavens is no more or less reassuring than Copernicus and Newton. But if you are curious about the details of how things hang together, you will gravitate toward the greater precision of a mathematical analysis of celestial mechanics. If all you care about is painting pictures and expressing emotion the dung beetle works just fine. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
