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To: My Favorite Headache
This strikes me as did the popular fascination with Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle several decades ago did.

In that case, as in this case, a property of some specific subatomic physics is extended by naive writers to other areas of human endeavor as if it were directly applicable.

I think not. Rather I think that both Uncertainty (then) and the pairing of electrons understood (here) as a manifestation of a Holographic like property are being stretched beyond their proper orgins to be metaphors for much else.

Metaphors are fine - I enjoy them myself. But don't confuse them with reality, or even scientific models of reality.

I like Karl Poppers view that science is distinguished by its being able to be disproven -- conclusively invalidated. Metaphors are not science.

20 posted on 01/14/2002 8:46:27 PM PST by ThePythonicCow
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To: ThePythonicCow
Your post is almost a carbon copy of what one Neuropsychiatrist spoke to me about the other day for 4 hours adnausem. Was not denying the possibility and said science is always there to be disproven but at the same time started getting into electrical charges and why people see white light and images when they die. Just the brain shutting down. The spectrum of how deep one can take Holographics is a new way of research and thinking for me right now and I have to be honest...I am looking for some solid base on where these scientists are signing up left and right now to this theory.
29 posted on 01/14/2002 8:53:01 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
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