/my take on it, but I think there's maybe a misconception
/as to where rationality can take a person. What I mean is,
The biggest flaw I (as a materialist-reductionist-atomist blah blah)
of logic I acknowledge is that it bites creatively. The descriptions I
hear of creative insight in math and science aren't pure deduction.
(Computer programming seems to be logically creative to me.
Maybe I don't do enough.) What logic is good for is unambiguous
communication and for weeding out the ideas that we spout through more
random means. Whether this actually allows room for mysticism, I don't
know. What does mysticism mean here, anyway?
/that there is still room for mysticism. No one denies the
/existence of altered states of consciousness, right? And
/such states are, after all, the basis of mysticism. By way
Whups. Just because mysticism intreprets ASCs supportively doesn't mean
it's right in doing so. The medical explanation of ASCs implies that
there isn't meaning to them.
Slainte,
-xx- Damien R. Sullivan X-) <*> http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix
The only gold I've ever known,
It belonged to the giant Longbone
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