>> We are about to have a reality check in the U. S. A. if the
>>senate even comes close to doing to science what it is now
>>contemplating. Never before has communication been so important.
>>I suspect this is true all over the world.
>
> Your fear for the Humpty-Dumptyness of languaging, which is extent in science
an
> d
> philosophy, makes more sense to me now. You are politically motivated, and
> that's admirable. Conservative, but admirable. I admit that some of my free
> nounings are at times non-ofcoursities to the untrained I, but I am profoundly
> convinced that such creative torchure of our language is a necessity to
> revitalize and progress our reality.
You are truly amazing! You try to deal with m,y comments by slandering
me and
then call ME "politically motivated". You have obviously forgotten
my defense of Levins and Lewontin and Gould! My concern about the
future of science may seem to be politically motivated to you, but then
most of my colleagues must be too, since they are terrified. The IEEE
is sending out bulletins regularly because they are afraid of what the
present gang in Washington is about to do. So is the American Physiological
Society. One thing they stress is our DUTY to clear up our communication!
One response is the well known "head in the sand" approach. Another is
to try tomake our statements clear. As far as the fear of gobbledy-gook,
There seems to be a widespread sharing of this out there. Sorry, Onar,
but opnce again you totally misread the message!
> On a side point, I'm also fond of Alice in Wonderland, especially
> Carroll's magic mirror which is a gateway between two different worlds. I've
> adopted the concept of the magic mirror and is now one of the foundation
> concepts of my joint theory of psychology, sociology and human evolution.
>
Yes, I use it in an undergraduate honors course on complexity. As a text
I use Peat and Briggs "Turbulent Mirror" which is chock full of Allice,
Ancient Chinese philosophy and modern complexity theory.
Best wishes, Don Mikulecky