[MD] End of Science

[skutvik at online.no]

Hi Platt.

On 30 Aug you wrote:

> Interesting article outlining reasons why science has reached the end
> of its rope. If accurate, such an end promises a search for a new
> worldview other than science's "Nobody Here But Us Chickens." If a
> better worldview is demanded, guess what can fill the gap? The article
> can be found at:
 
> http://www.science-spirit.org/newdirections.php?article_id=742e 

Interesting piece, it shows the dead end that latter day science is 
in - physics in particular - but also that the MOQ can get it out of 
these dire straits.

Science is (SOM's) objectivity systemized. From this it follows that 
as long as SOM reigns science is torn between its old conviction 
that it is supposed to find nature's ultimate secrets and the new 
ironic findings that objectively seen all is subjective. This is what in 
my opinion John Horgan means by "end of science".

This is the SOM-generated dead-end that the MOQ opens up by 
postulating that the S/O distinction is its own intellectual level - with 
the static limitations - not a pattern to the be removed (that's back 
to the Stone Age) It says that intellect as science - physics in this 
case - applied to the inorganic level eventually will encounter its 
borderline to the dynamics it emerged from.   

This would relieve physics from the said quandary and allow it to 
go along as usual without any irony or inconsistencies.  But then 
you and I belong to the abominable old-school  "... built on 
competition who think discussion is a contest and the winner is the 
one that gets the last word in". So strong opinions about the MOQ 
is not wanted  ...except DMB's according to Gavin

Bo

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