Re: "The map is not the Territory"...

From: Andr? Michaud (srp_at_microtec.net)
Date: 08/02/04 

Date: 2 Aug 2004 04:11:45 -0700

"Bill Hobba" <bhobba@rubbish.net.au> wrote in message news:<KJjPc.28383$K53.1394@news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
> "Andr? Michaud" <srp@microtec.net> wrote in message
> news:562f286c.0408010433.7f851291@posting.google.com...
> > "Bill Hobba" <bhobba@rubbish.net.au> wrote in message
> news:<ewWOc.25669$K53.379@news-server.bigpond.net.au>...
> > >
> > > "srp" <srp2@globetrotter.net> wrote in message
> > > news:410B967F.AB22F3D1@globetrotter.net...
> > > >
> > > > A final theory of nature that would cause all these problems to
> > > > disappear cannot possibly come about until a sufficient number of
> > > > people realize that the real MacCoy is the physical reality out
> > > > there that all of our personal theories are ultimately trying to
> > > > describe, and this includes the personal theories that have become
> > > > generalized as current orthodox physics.
> > >
> > > Banding words about like 'physical reality' and 'out there is
> > > fraught with danger.
> >
> > Why? What are you afraid of?
>
> That it degrgenrates into meaningless philosophical quibbling about words.
> The scientific method is not concerned about reality - it is simply a method
> of relating theories to experiments. It is a philosophical issue to ascribe
> any other meaning.
>
> >
> > Physical reality is precisely the territory that this catch phrase
> > refers to. Why is it dangerous to throw a glance at the territory
> > once in a while to check where we're at instead of constantly mull
> > over the incomplete maps that orthodoxy is so found of?
>
> Because no one can even define what physical reality is - but it is quite
> easy to define the scientific method.

Since you obviously have not become aware that there can exist only
one objective physical reality, I'm afraid that your window of opportunity
is definitely closed, and and that anything pertaining to it will be
meaningless to you.

André Michaud

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