TRP Themes

[Paul Mackin]

Can't help throwing in my two cents.

It seems to me that, though in the end everything is chemistry and
physics, we don't gain as much leverage as we might like by applying
physical concepts to the human condition.

Even as metaphor.

I know TRP has been known to do such things, but let's not forget he
has also provided us with at least two _human-scale_ metaphors with
which to indulge our philosophical inclinations:

one from psychiatry--the us/them system; (you could say from politics)

the other from religion--the preterite/elect system.

Science (as well as other bodies of learned discourse) is dazzlingly
displayed in GR. It's so darn dazzling as to be downright inspirational,
as some have testified to in recent posts. 

But is it science's majesty and power from which we ultimately draw
our wisdom, or is it from the limitations of science?

Don't we agree that control based on science is a fleeting illusion?

I say: an understanding of the human condition based on physics is equally
fleeting.

(At least I didn't make the mistake this time of saying science is boring,
if anyone remembers.)

				P.