[MD] Science and the MOQ

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting skutvik at online.no:

> Hi David M.
> 
> Sun April 6 you wrote
>  
> >  Bo writes (March 27th): 
> 
> > > "The scientific-objective  attitude is not that of holding on to a
> > > particular stage, but the continuous search. Yet, all this is fuelled by
> > > the conviction that there is a final truth because there is an
> > > independent reality (as expressed by Maturana's) 
> 
> > DM: Without us would this independent reality know
> > that it was there?
>  
> Course not, there would not be an intellectual level to harbor that 
> conviction (no social level either for that's matter). 
> 
> Bo 

Hi Bo, David M.,

Whether a germ knows there's an independent reality or not is debatable since
we don't know what it's like to be a germ. That a germ knows that it's better
for it to be in one place rather than another can be assumed by its behavior.
Similarly with an electron.

Regards,
Platt


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