[MD] Bo's weak versus strong interpretation of quantum physiks

[Krimel]

[Krimel]
Reason is the late arrival even in evolutionary terms. Man seems to be the
only living thing we know to possess it. It also seems that the function of
reason is inhibitory. It serves to override the emotions and stop us from
acting on the immediate emotional "value" of the present. It helps us
subordinate what feels good to what makes sense.

Ron:
Right, this statement defines a whole new context of value.

To compare  what feels good, to what makes good sense.

An arguement for the harmonizing of the two, what makes good sense
can also feel good, is the driving force of quality, just as you state
an expansion of reason ought to be an expansion of quality among
all four levels.

[Krimel]
Both reason and emotion always play in role in our evaluations of what makes
sense. As Jung would have it, which domain we count as most important may be
a matter of personality. Emotions were not taken into account all that much
in the first half of the last century. Partly because of the enlightenment
push for the supremacy of reason. But that emphasis on reason was in part a
move away from the dominance of emotion in human affairs prior to the
enlightenment. Some here would like to claim that emotions have been ignored
or discounted for some nefarious purpose but any review of the history of
greed, lust, anger and fear in human affairs can hardly claim that they have
been forced to take a back seat.

Science for example does take emotions seriously and a great deal of work
has been done in the study of emotions but emotions rightly have no place
within most experimental studies. The point of such studies is to eliminate
or minimize the effect of extraneous variables, that is, things that have
nothing to do with what is being studied. If I am conducting studies on the
rate at which objects fall, it makes no difference if I love my wife or if I
desire heavy things to fall faster than light things.

What I choose to study and how I chose to study them may in fact depend
entirely on emotional factors like, I love my wife and she wants me to study
falling bodies. But that is irrelevant to my scientific efforts. She may
want heavy things to fall faster and in my devotion to please her, I may
study just that but when I find that weight plays no role in how fast
something falls I will have to resolve my passions to my intellect. 

Whether one uses empirical or rational methods any honest inquiry carries
with it the possibility of conclusions that we may find emotionally
upsetting. In fact I would suggest that whenever we arrive at a "truth" that
causes us no discomfort we ought to be suspicious.