Re: The Demise of a Meme

From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
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    Hi Tim Rhodes -

    >Show me a "science" without props, please.

    While I wholeheartedly enjoy the props of scientific investigation, the
    test tubes and measuring devices, the lenses and electrodes, the
    machinery and gauges, none of them are required to do science, at all.
    They are augmenters of methodologies and data acquisition, and without
    them, we couldn't reach the level of knowledge that we have about nature
    today, but without them, science can flourish nevertheless.

    1.a. The observation, identification, description, experimental
    investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena. b. Such
    activities restricted to a class of natural phenomena. c. Such activities
    applied to an object of inquiry or study.
    2. Methodological activity, discipline, or study.
    3. An activity that appears to require study and method.
    4. Knowledge, especially that gained through experience.

    I especially meant #4, when I used 'science' to mean the creative or
    'eureka' moment.

    Unless you mean we will always need the prop of a mind, in which case,
    you're right.

    - Wade

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