Finally got a chance to listen to this lovely dialog between two such fine minds. How interesting, Daniel, that you brought up the word "environment" just after Dougald mentioned Ewe Poerksen's observations on scientific language. It's from Poerksen I realized that "environment" was an example of what he called "plastic words."
When we begin realize that the web of the world is not an aesthetic accoutrement, all these connections and interconnections feel more like friends holding hands than ironies, as you well know!
"Is it bad luck with the chemistry or would we have always have come to this point due to how we fundamentally deal with the world?" is such a brilliant insight.
Finally got a chance to listen to this lovely dialog between two such fine minds. How interesting, Daniel, that you brought up the word "environment" just after Dougald mentioned Ewe Poerksen's observations on scientific language. It's from Poerksen I realized that "environment" was an example of what he called "plastic words."
When we begin realize that the web of the world is not an aesthetic accoutrement, all these connections and interconnections feel more like friends holding hands than ironies, as you well know!
"Is it bad luck with the chemistry or would we have always have come to this point due to how we fundamentally deal with the world?" is such a brilliant insight.
Thanks for taking a gander. Dougald was spot on there!