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From: gadfly@ihu1m.UUCP (Gadfly)
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Subject: Re: About Sir Eccles, etc. (this one is short!)
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Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 00:53:20 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 16 00:53:20 1985
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>> Sir Eccles and many other people, and probably Ken Arndt, argue that
>> since reason alone cannot answer all questions, we must resort to
>> faith.  Well, this is simply silly.  It's about as silly as some
>> doctor saying: "We at the Mayo Clinic have seen for ourselves that
>> medicine alone cannot prevent or cure all diseases and deformities. 
>> Therefore we have decided to go with blood-letting."

>> Lack of a right answer does not mean that we should go with a wrong one.
>> ---
>> 			Greg Kuperberg

Ah, but you jump to conclusions.  No one mentioned faith.  Intuition
is a better word.  Lack of a scientific answer does not mean lack of
an answer.  It *DOES* mean, of course, lack of an answer we are likely
to agree on.  There is certainly a vast subjective domain (in which
reside soul, love, consciousness, and misc. things that go bump in the
night) where such agreement is not necessary nor even useful.

And you know, real doctors really do exactly what you quoted.
They don't know what causes a host of diseases, but they treat them
just the same.  The blood-letting has been superseded by needless
surgery or psychoactive drugs, but then this *is* the 20th century.

My question to the sociobiologist hot to find the physiochemical
determinants of love is the same one I asked the speed-reading salesman
who promised I'd be able to polish off a 300-page novel in 45 minutes:
"Why on earth would anybody want to?"
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