[MD] Catching up to Pirsig

[MarshaV]

Krimel,

If you have a spare moment, you might want to listen to a few of 
these programs:

"If science is neither cookery, nor angelic virtuosity, then what is it?
Modern societies have tended to take science for granted as a way of 
knowing, ordering and controlling the world. Everything was subject 
to science, but science itself largely escaped scrutiny. This 
situation has changed dramatically in recent years. Historians, 
sociologists, philosophers and sometimes scientists themselves have 
begun to ask fundamental questions about how the institution of 
science is structured and how it knows what it knows. David Cayley 
talks to some of the leading lights of this new field of study."

http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/science/index.html


Marsha



At 11:49 AM 4/12/2009, you wrote:
>Marsha
>What is it with Darwin's theory?  Seems to me the theory of evolution
>becomes more static and mechanistic every decade.  There's
>evolutionary biology, evolutionary chemistry, evolutionary
>epistemology, evolutionary psychology, my goodness there is even a
>evolutionary astrology, etc., etc., etc,...   It is just a static
>pattern of value, yes?
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>[Krimel]
>First of all the explosion of new applications of evolutionary theory that
>you cite is clear evidence of the dynamic quality of the theory. It is
>static patterns that often give rise to ever more interesting examples of
>dynamic quality. For example language is entirely composed of static pattern
>and yet out of it grow that infinite generativity of speech and writing. It
>is in fact the presence of
>static patterns that give rise to ever more astounding examples of dynamic
>quality.
>
>Sorry when I leave the touchpad on the laptop on strange errors often ensue.
>
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