Brent, interleaving
John
--- Brent Meeker <meekerdb.domain.name.hidden> wrote:
>
> John M wrote:
> > Dear Stathis:
> > my answer to your quewstion:
> > Of course not!
> > There is a belief systems "I" like and there are
> the others I don't.
> > I just maintain a (maybe misplaced?) humbleness
> that I am not the judge
> > to decide about the rightness of "mine" and "not
> mine".
> > --------"Mine" is better (not necessarily the
> best). <G> --------
> > Otherwise I would change it as do many converts,
> emigrants. divorcees,
> > or 'elevated minds' coming to some better
> position.
>
Brent:
> So why do you consider yours better than others; so
> that you don't change?
John:
Are you joking, or you cannot take a joking remark?
(The <G> in internet abbreviations means "grin".
Hungarian proverb: even a gipsy praises his own horse)
>
> > The exceptional "best" are those of the
> fundamentalist fanatics (for
> > themselves, of course), they don't even 'look'
> away.
> >
> > I liked your 'trappy' question: I used to be a
> faithful altar-boy, a
> > reincarnationist, a Ouiji-board addict, a natural
> scientist (within the
> > reductionist science-religion of our times in the
> west) and I changed
> > lately into a view of totally interconnected
> complexity of a
> > deterministically interactive existence. So I have
> experience.
> > Am I biased? you bet.
>
Brent:
> When a scientist knows his instrument is biased, he
> puts in a correction to remove the bias he knows
> about. You seem to just be making a generalization,
> like the scientist who says, "All instruments have
> some bias; so this one must too." Without knowing
> anything about the bias, it's just the same as
> uncertainty.
John:
So noted. (However: in my feeble English 'bias' means
'~prejudice' and I have yet to learn about prejudicial
instruments. Unless we accept the "conscious
instrument e.g. a thinking yardstick). I, as a
Loebian machine, may well be prejudicial).
>
> Brent Meeker
>
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Received on Sat Jan 13 2007 - 17:03:43 PST