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Originally posted by Suki
I most definitely will get this reading list and try to get these titles from the Denver Public Library (which is near my house).
Your entire essay-like exposition to my questions just reaffirmed what I said earlier about the dynamic qualities of science, but it always brings up more questions than it answers.
Have you read a great book by Michio Kaku called "HYPERSPACE"-A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps, and the 10th Dimension published originally in 1994 by Anchor Books. It got rave reviews by the New York Times Book Review. Kaku is a scientist and a physicist who stretches his extensive knowledge of Physics and just makes your head spin and revolve through his own version of the Theorem of Existence.
It took me a couple of reads to grasp his essential line of reasoning and about 3 more to get some of his more complex explanations but it was worth it!! You might have already read it but it is VERY INTERESTING.
There are parts of the book that support my argument against Eddier1's notions about scientists having to rely on publicly and professionally agreed upon truth. Though I see the arguments for objectivity in your favor. Sure, there are laws of nature and in the Universe that are reality and therefore essential truth and can not be trod upon or disturbed by human "subjectivity", I just happen to think humanity has not reached a point in time and space to be able to perceive all the mysteries in our world and give pat explanations for all living phenomenon without some big AGUJEROS in our original premises.
I will give Eddie lots of info on what us crazy Anthropologists are up to on many fronts. It is just that I am getting very busy at work, and I believe in trying to get current and up-to-date studies. (I have to do my homework [and reading] first). I wish I could see Eddie's face. He has such a strong personality. As for me, I have premature gray hair (for a 35 year old) and I die it a natural dark brown like when I was younger. It is curly. Everyone says I have huge, glowing dark brown eyes. I have light skin. Strong eyebrows. Clear skin and my mother says I have elegant hands. My husband thinks I am beautiful, but he is prejudiced he loves me too much.
I wish soooooo muccch to be a participant in your dance workshops Raul, I think I would die from the sheer pleasure of all that keen mind dedicated to such an ironically emotionally satisfying enterprise. Leticia g would be wonderful to watch dance as well. Alas, duty calls first.
I had some additional questions about these experiments that you quote. Mind teasers again... But I will leave them for next time, Raulito. What a priveledge it has been to meet both you and Eddie in this strange electronic cafe. "Manny" as you put it has pissed me off in another thread and so I subtly suggested he was a religious "hypocrite" I think I have made an enemy for life in that crazy guy. You seem from the limited experience I have of him to dialog better with him then than I do? Me cae super mal. He is constantly attacking me personally but I ignore him and give him backhanded criticism talking to others instead.
It certainly has added a dimension to urbanism (this computer anonymity exchange of thoughts and ideas). Adios. Con mas carino aun, Suki.
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Hi Suki and Raul;
It seems I had to take a little hiatus from the forum, and got the chance to give your themes some sober second thoughts. And then all hell broke loose at the WTC, the latest breaking news, and not far from where I reside. Gosh, when I read some of the threads, by that guy Manny, I was presented with my name being associated with all Independentists, whom he labelled "terrorists" responsible for the horrible act. You know it made me think of the early Independentists of the Republic of America before it adopted democracy as its system of gov't. In those days, the Tories or the colonists who supported the Brits protested too much against the Independendists, and it made me think that it was because they had a sense of guilt feelings over the way they as lackeys of the Brits had treated so badly their Independentists neighbors. And to update this, it made me think of Manny who has protested too much slandering not only me, but all Independentists as terrorists responsible for that heinous crime. It too could be that he has a guilt complex as having once worked for the FAA, over not having the wear-withall to have prevented what happened. And so he transfers the guilt to all us Independentists, and it is no joke but a sick expression of his diseased brain.
But on the lighter side, it is nice to see that both of you enjoy tripping the light fantastic as mamboists. For me, its been so long that I last danced that I wouldn't know my right foot from left foot on a dance floor. But to get to your incisive posts on scientific matters, let me say Suki that I also took time out on my brief "vacation" to do some reading in Social or what you now refer to as Cultural Anthropology. My word! how things have changed since last I read my social anthropology books. In my books, there was a strong emphasis on the place of religion, basically, animism in the development of culture, but in the newer material I read animism with its fetishes and material symbols are hardly mentioned. Old Suma gets a passing wave from the modernists, even though they actually invented written language, and even though they actually worshipped the RAM as their god.
Your australopiths figure very large in the modernists explanations, and I was taken by your comparing Manny to one of them. When I consider Homo Habilis, the first toolmakers, I am embarrased that Manny was compared to them because he is not a toolmaker of any type, but spent his time in the FAA inheriting the wind above and below the wings of airplanes, and immersing himself in the variety of Wind Tunnels around the globe. Is it any wonder that this country has such disasters happen involving aviation when the FAA employed such sick individuals like Manny? I'm fairly certain they hired him for political reasons, and not because he was any good at the job. And so they have to take the blame for their poor performances, and not blame anyone else but themselves.
Suki and Raul, I have written much for the moment, and I will next time address your interesting posts on scientific matters, philosophy, and abiogenesis.
Regards Boricuas,
EddieR