Well said Steve, And positive proof that you can be an atheist without being a moronist.
Steve: > Randomness seems like a particularly bad choice to me as a metaphysical > basis since I see it as an epistemological rather than an ontological > concept. I see it as a term used to say what we know about something rather > than about what something is like. Randomness, as I understand the term, is > used to descibe our ability to make predictions about events rather than a > property of the events themselves. I believe this issue is what concerned > Einstein about Quantum Mechanics. I think he saw it as giving ontological > status to randomness when randomness is a matter of perspective. > You and me and Einstein and Pirsig. John > > "Everything is Quality" feels a lot better to me than "everything is > random" > which just sounds to me as equivalent to "some things are predictable but > others are unpredictable from my perspective." > > 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/
