Re: The world may fundamentally be inexplicable
Right you are, Brandon,
This is another case of the peculiarity of the
human mind, so gladenning John: if you don't see/follow something, then it
doesn't exist, or 'fundamentally inexplicable', while this is just
accidentally unaccountable, and most depends on the quality of our
theories.
The universe is a deep dark secret, mysterious and
mystifying to human minds. And the fundamental challenge to the human mind is to
provide a universal language that explains in noncryprical terms how this
unbounded environment is made of, what populates it, how it changes, how
its basic constituents related, etc. And this is all the legal responsibility of
real ontology.
The main reason why Mother-Nature endowed us, human
species, with intelligence is
to Know Ourselves through Knowing Reality and to
Know Reality through Knowing Ourselves.
All good wishes,
Azamat
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 2:24
PM
Subject: Re: The world may fundamentally be
inexplicable
> On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 13:38 -0500, John F. Sowa wrote:
>
>> Summary: Forget the elusive search for an ultimate
unified
>> ontology because (a) it might not exist, (b) even if
it
>> did exist, it's not likely to be found for at least
another
>> century or so,
>
> Well it certainly won't be
found if nobody even wants to look
> for it.
> Just because
something is very difficult doesn't mean it is not
> worth trying.
>
> Happy New Year
> Brandon
>
>
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