A walk on the wild side

Greene, Carlton · 10 Aug 2000, 18:24 · from urth-v0029.mbox · original

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From: "Greene, Carlton" <CGreene2 at hunton.com>
Subject: RE: (urth) A walk on the wild side
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:24:35
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Mantis wrote:

As to what happened to cause this separation between logic and non-logic,
it seems to me to be the same sort of scientific triumphs that we have seen
in the 20th century: real miracles, real terrors, real predictions
validated through experimentation (and any "failure" just points the way to
later success--nothing invalidates Science itself), and so forth.

I think the story is about the need for a balance of things: a golden rule
of nothing to excess (where the singleminded pursuit of logic is an
excess).

Given this separation, by what means did man "sell" his wild side to the
machines?

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