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Re: Ecological Economics and Entropy
In <57acck$lg6@news.inforamp.net> dlj@inforamp.net (David Lloyd-Jones)
writes:
>
>On Tue, 12 Nov 1996 09:09:25 -0700, mfriesel@ix.netcom.com wrote:
>
>>Jay Hanson wrote:
>>> CARRYING CAPACITY IS CALCULATED IN A SPECIFIC REGION
>>> USING ACTUAL ANIMALS ACTING AS THEY NATURALLY DO --
>>> NOT SOME HYPOTHETICAL SET OF ANIMALS THAT MIGHT BE
>>> SUBSTITUTED FOR THE ACTUAL ONES.
>>>
>>> In other words, if humans are greedy, stupid and violent
>>> now, then science must assume that they will remain so.
>>>
>>I note:
>>Well put. I'll save this.
>
>I doubt that there is a science in which "greedy," "stupid," and
>"violent" are useful objective variables.
To quote John McCarthy's old opponent, John Searle:
"A good rule of thumb to keep in mind is that anything
that calls itself 'science' probably isn't".
(_Minds, Brains and Science_, introduction).
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