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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.physics
Subject: Re: The death of bogus physics
Message-ID: <2179@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 14:47:14 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 28 14:47:14 1986
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In article <751@hounx.UUCP> kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT) writes:
>[In choosing among belief systems], there is no immediate reason for
>preferring certain systems of belief to others.   [meta-p 117]
>
>I don't know if this exercise leads anywhere, but the above example
>of the "copy-with-substitute" procedure does seem to preserve a certain
>sensibility to it.  I wonder if anyone else has noticed the deep
>isomorphism between the laws of physics and the laws of human nature.

I take strong issue with considering the substituted quotation
to be a "law of human nature".  Unlike coordinate systems,
which are an artifical contrivance, human beings are existing
concrete entities with specific characteristics, so one very
well WOULD expect there to be preferred belief systems, moral
codes, etc. derived from the actual nature of human beings.
I do not grant equal credence to a criminal's belief in his
right to kill me and in my belief that I have the right to live.

This isn't really a physics topic, but that's where you posted.