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My father used to say; "When you have
eliminated all the possibilities that cannot work, what you are left with,
however improbable, must be examined for truth." He was also an intensely
creative man, capable of enormous imagination, so he had no trouble coming up
with possible explanations for phenomena that went in completely different
directions from those historically accepted by science... Then he
tested the logic in them to see if they would hold, just as he did with the
"laws" of physics (which proved them not to be "laws" in nature). Anything that
was inapplicable to biological systems-- but worked well enough for machines--
was relegated to the specialty toolkit. He believed, like Einstein did, that
there has to be a general underlying set of entailments at work in the
universe. He wasn't much interested in anything that wasn't generally
applicable. Thus, he ended up doing so much work at the foundations of science,
much to his own surprise.
Judith
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