[MD] Intention changes physical world (some questions)

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>:

> Case and Platt,
> 
> I've been watching this debate go back and forth.  At
> times, I'm not even sure what the debate is about. 
> Science has so much to offer.  I wouldn't get in the
> way of science.  I would get in the way of how science
> is practiced, though, but the ethics of how science is
> used might be another story.

The debate is about to what extent should we allow science to determine
what is real and what is true. It's not a matter in getting in the way
of science, but in clearly proscribing science's limits. For example,
science explains Rachmaniov's 2nd Piano Concerto as a neurological
consequence of the impact of vibrations on the eardrum. I'm sure Case
as well as you and I would agree that that is an impoverished description.
Science and technology has accomplished wonders in providing us with
material well-being. The I-Pod is a marvel of quantum physics and computer
technology. But the music. Ah, that's what we live for! 

So the debate is about a philosophy that not only explains the bread but
also the beauty of it all. 

Platt

   

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