Terry Boyce wrote:
>
> Steve Devos writes  "that the best science like the best contemporary
> philosophy radically displaces human beings from the centre of
> things."<bold>
[snip]
> </bold>It starts with Einstein. He shows that measurement -
> measurement, on which the whole possibility of science depends -
> measurement is not an impersonal event that occurs with impartial
> universality. It's a human act
snip]
> That the universe exists only-as a series of approximations.
> Only within the limits determined by our relationship with it. Only
> through the understanding lodged inside the human head.
>
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>
> It's an interesting idea and one that - if pursued to its logical
> conclusion - can become intuitive and personal (and an extension of
> Descartes). I know that I am at the centre of my universe.

    Man is the measurer of all things.

    Mankind is not the master of all the stuff that exists,
    but Everyman (woman, child...) is *a* judge of the world.

A *big* challenge is how 5+ billion judges can live together
on this small planet, as opposed to a few leaders and many
unquestioning followers.

+\brad mccormick

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  Let your light so shine before men,
              that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)

  Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)

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