Re: What are the parameters? -- Bafflegab!
Posted by Sparrow on Jan 22, 2002 at 23:19
44.a.arbros.nb.net (209.161.68.69)Re: What are the parameters? (Eudaemonic Pie)
You gosh-darned reductionists! (Meant fondly...)
Belief has more than one definition, e.g.:
1 : a state or habit of mind in which trust or confidence is placed in some person or thing
2 : something believed; especially: a tenet or body of tenets held by a group
3 : conviction of the truth of some statement or the reality of some being or phenomenon especially when based on examination of evidenceIt is in the mind of #3 that I posed the initial response to our dear Richard Stover. The belief depends on the observer's position: I can scientifically measure that a beaker is 50% full, but what makes it seem half full to one person and half empty to another? BELIEF, for the quality of the state of the beaker is a subjective perception based in relativity, not a physical measurement.
(Hmmm...observer...position...relativity...could it BE? NAaaah!)
It is belief that affects physiology in the situation that I outlined in my paper. Placebos be damned, let that straw man arguement drop!
In contradiction to what Richard Stover said, I say that belief and Science are related when it comes to human tissue systems...take it from there....
8)
Microsoft® Encarta® Quote of the Day:
" To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth. "Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Follow Ups:
- Re: What are the parameters? -- Bafflegab! DA Morgan 23/1 14:45 (7)
- DAM, you're changing the topic again... Sparrow 23/1 17:59 (6)
- My eye is on the Sparrow .. Eudaemonic Pie 24/1 13:35 (5)
- .. I ain't in the mood for quickies Eudaemonic Pie 24/1 14:48 (0)
- OK, OK, just for a minute or two.... Sparrow 24/1 14:10 (3)
- Tere's still another point of view Amaranth Rose 24/1 15:45 (2)
- Re: Tere's still another point of view Sparrow 24/1 22:31 (0)
- depends on the context bobbapink 24/1 17:17 (0)