Ben, list, I agree that #3 is not a dogma of science.
Best, Gary [image: Gary Richmond] *Gary Richmond* *Philosophy and Critical Thinking* *Communication Studies* *LaGuardia College of the City University of New York* *C 745* *718 482-5690* On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 7:27 PM, Benjamin Udell <[email protected]> wrote: > Gary, list, > > My understanding is that "3. The total amount of matter and energy is > conserved" is not a dogma of science and contradicts current physical > theory, which argues that the total energy (including mass) of the universe > increases as the universe expands, and would decrease if the universe were > to contract. > > Best, Ben > > *On 5/31/2017 6:15 PM, Gary Richmond wrote:* > > List, > > As an addendum to my forwarded post, here are what Sheldrake claims to be > 10 dogmas of science. > > > > > > > > > > > *1. Everything is essentially mechanical. 2. All matter is unconscious. 3. > The total amount of matter and energy is conserved. 4. The laws of nature > are fixed. They are the same today as they were at the beginning, and they > will stay the same forever. 5. Nature is purposeless, and evolution has no > goal or direction. 6. All biological inheritance is material, carried in > the genetic material, DNA, and in other material structures. 7. Minds are > inside heads and are nothing but the activities of brains. When you look at > a tree, the image of the tree you are seeing is not “out there,” where it > seems to be, but inside your brain. 8. Memories are stored as material > traces in brains and are wiped out at death. 9. Unexplained phenomena like > telepathy are illusory. 10. Mechanistic medicine is the only kind that > really works.* > > I had earlier written that dogma 9, seems not supported by Peirce's > writings. Although he thought that such matters as telepathy ought be > investigated, he seems not to have been convinced himself that such > phenomena had been experimentally validated. > > Perhaps I should have added that while his general anti-materialist > tendencies as well as his views concerning the role of a kind of Lamarckian > inheritance would tend to support 6., that the second part of that putative > dogma is probably not what Sheldrake is emphasizing here (not to mention > that DNA research hadn't begun in Peirce's time). > > Best, > > Gary R > > [image: Gary Richmond] > > > > > > > *Gary Richmond Philosophy and Critical Thinking Communication Studies > LaGuardia College of the City University of New York C 745 718 482-5690 > <(718)%20482-5690>* > > *On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Gary Richmond **wrote:* > > > ----------------------------- > PEIRCE-L subscribers: Click on "Reply List" or "Reply All" to REPLY ON > PEIRCE-L to this message. PEIRCE-L posts should go to > [email protected] . To UNSUBSCRIBE, send a message not to PEIRCE-L > but to [email protected] with the line "UNSubscribe PEIRCE-L" in the > BODY of the message. More at http://www.cspeirce.com/peirce-l/peirce-l.htm > . > > > > > >
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