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Old 15-December-2008, 07:46 PM
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To that I would add, the search for a "rich inner life" is quintessentially nonscientific, because in science, a rich inner life is something we see if we see it, but we never search for it. The search is for just the opposite-- a replacement of the rich inner life with a simpler set of rules that produce the same objective behavior. The latter is what science is really all about, even in regard to life itself. It is all we can hope to add to the situation-- we already have the rich inner life. We don't do science to be "reassured" that everything makes sense, we do it to find what we can make sense of, but we have to try hard not to beguile ourselves into simply retrofitting preconceived notions to achieve a sense of "reassurance"-- that practice comes under a different name.
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