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Dear Ayten, a thought (and artistic emotions)
provoking post indeed.
To the Lee Smolins quote-part from Judith's
post below:
you must be a well-trained physicist,
literate in current theories and aware of their limitations..."
I would add: and be a reductionist like
Einstein, who took the limited model of 'physical' quantities for the world as
'total' in his considerations. Don't forget, there is no such 'thing' in the so
called physical reality (what is it?) as " l i g h t ", the speed of which
is said to be 'constant'. There are effects we explained and calculated as
'photons' that 'move'(?) and our mindful interpretation forms this percept into
a light, - image, etc. mental realization.
(Same with 'sound', mass, even
energy etc.).
Our instruments are designed to serve this
model. Ingeniously.
You wrote:
>...As the real complexity starts, I
believe, in fields above and beyond physics it is essential to have a
good understanding of mathematics and physics but not
enough...."<
We (all, westernly learned) are brainwashed into
reductionistic thinking in calculations by quantized models - considered as the
total of their topical cut. There is a danger in a 'good understanding': one
slips easily into the habit and it distorts the wholistical ways of
thinking into the learned maxims.
I think we all struggle with such schizophrenia
to think on one side int natural systems and on the other side more mechanistic
or simple models. I believe RR also struggled in this, especially since he
wanted to write to the reductionistic crowd palatably.
It seems he could keep a clear barrier dividing
such dichotomy.
Your _expression_ "...meta-scientists and theorists, ..." is a label mostly
applied derogatorily by the "establishemnt-scientists" on people who dare
express unorthodox opinions. (I do not want to eliminate the
posibility of half-baked thinkers and unscientific errants, but such
identification has to be made with caution: many 'unconventional' ideas look
like a hoax.)
Music: Song is an age-old part
of human mentality (I missed Wolff from your composers)
expressing the 'emotional' side mostly. Two
points to add: in human history there was a strong effect (to the worse) of
violent war-songs to promote brutality and I wonder how would the honorable
list-members deem "rap-art" - the _expression_ of contemporary and emotional
feelings in rhythmical, but mostly unharmonized declamation of texts? Is it
art?
(I dislike it but accept it as art. Contemporary
art about malaises torturing the minds in artful expressiveness, are mostly
disliked by contemporaries - eg. Beethoven, etc.).
Intuition? good
point. How about art? I am sure RR had a lot to say about it.
John M
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