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From: rlr@pyuxd.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: If that's what you think, why argue?
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Date: Sat, 24-Aug-85 14:37:59 EDT
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> For crying out loud, Rich, that's my whole argument!!!!  We are not
> scientifically in a position to decide the question.  And besides, would you
> deny the following passage?
> 
> >>>Yes, indeed, plenty of
> >>>human behavior APPEARS to be random, Charley.  Plenty of lots of things
> >>>APPEAR to be random, but on closer examination, we find something holding
> >>>it together.  A bit more complex than some people who prefer one-sentence
> >>>explanations for things ("God did it!"), but perhaps they're just too lazy
> >>>to examine things in that dreaded "scientific" way.  One look at the
> >>>universe, one careful look, will show you how many "random" things
> >>>really have very simple physical processes at their root, complexly
> >>>interweaving with each other to give the illusion of "randomness" to
> >>>the casual observer.
> 
> You call THAT rigor? [WINGATE]

I don't think I'll deny what I wrote myself.  Yes, I call this rigorous.
Very much so.  Especially when compared to "We don't understand it, so
rather than examining it further, let's make up a model that conforms to
the way we want the world to be regardless of whatever is found".
-- 
"to be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day
 to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human
 being can fight and never stop fighting."  - e. e. cummings
	Rich Rosen	ihnp4!pyuxd!rlr