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Thoughts XXVIII - morality



In American politics today we have among our parties “no morality” versus “faux morality,” while each claims high morality.   All to confuse the philosophers, I’m sure. J
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A theory is a lens which focuses information into knowledge.
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When you have a religious fervor but are constrained by morality, this is one thing.  When not so constrained, this is another; it allows almost any action.

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If you intend to write a book about knowledge, be sure your publisher prints it on yellowing paper bound with dusty covers.  This gives it a head start on its final outcome, residing on a library shelf, untouched for years on end.
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Many agree that truth correlates with knowledge, and vice versa.  Whatever would the statisticians say about correlating two objects with no clear meaning?
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We all too often hear about comparing apples and oranges, but you can’t do it.  Wrong, they have much in common.  Both are fruits that grow on trees; both have about the same size. Both produce flowers to pollinate and have seeds within their fruit to germinate. That’s a lot in common.  About as common as Democrats and Republicans.  But compare the apple to a rock reduces commonality to having a form made up of atoms. Not much is common. Or compare an apple to a gust of air.  No form but just atoms.  Even less similar.  Now compare our beleaguered apple to a flash of light, e.g. photons.  Then, almost nothing all these.  

Part of this made some of those old Star Trek episodes so interesting, with species so different from us as to be comparable to the apple and a blast of energy.  Of course, Captain Kirk was able to find common ground and save the day.
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Pictures.  Can you picture an atom other than something like a planetary system with the sun as the nucleus and the planets as the electrons?  (Bohr atom) The newer version is that of a nucleus (the sun) surrounded by an electron cloud (quantum).  Probably now the nucleus is pictured as a dense cloud (sun) surrounded by an electron cloud.  The last two are good pictures but convey little understanding to folks that understand distinct object – like most of us.  Yet we do imagine electrons and protons basically as tiny chunks, even though we’ve learned to view their behavior is as if clouds.
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