Western Science

[Rcfchess at aol.com]

The differences between "Western" and "Eastern" thinking have nothing to do  
with science. Science is science, wherever. They have to do with philosophical 
 frameworks and spiritual outlooks: basically, dualism vs. oneness; either-or 
vs.  holistic. The only way this impinges on scientific outlook is that an 
individual  - such as a scientist - may also have an individual perspective 
which is  influenced by his/her origin or upbringing in either tradition; but that 
is  outside the bounds of science, which remains the same. 
 
The only other common ground I can think of would pertain to areas such as  
in quantum mechanics, wherein there are apparently scientifically proven (or, 
at  least, postulated hypothetically) phenomena which appear to partake of a  
non-linear, non-Euclidean mode of perception, and thus would be more amenable 
to  understanding in terms of an "Eastern" way of understanding the world 
(e.g.,  Heisenberg; the Tao of Physics; the Dancing Wu Li Masters; the Roots of  
Coincidence [Koestler], etc.)
 
RF
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