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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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