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     One  of  the essential aspects of scientific work  is
the  development of a more narrow dominant focus than that
which  characterizes  many  non-scientists.    Because  of
finitude  all real persons must attempt to fulfill only  a
portion  of  all  that  they in  their  imagination  might
fulfill.     Differing  persons  deal  with  finitude   in
different ways.  Some have the emotional security to do so
consciously with mutual awareness of  how people cease  to
live. Others via collusions select dominant foci for their
lives  which  are  cosmetic  solutions to the  problem  of
finitude.  When the dominant focus of a person's life is a
cosmetic solution to the problem of dealing with finitude,
that  person  will  find  in hard to  engage  in genuinely
helpful behavior.

     Some  of  the  not  too  helpful  dominant  foci   of
scientists    include:    precision   in   early   science
instruction,   the  early  introduction  of  sophisticates
theories,   the use  of  much  sophisticated  factory-made
equipment,   academic  puzzles rather than real  problems,
research in place of dialogue, etc.

     Because of the nature of scientific work,  scientists
naturally have a narrow dominant focus to their individual
life.  Thus there is a greater than usual danger that they
will cease to live as real persons.  Real students who are
aware  of  and  fear this possibility may therefore  &void
science  courses  and  the  possibility  of science  as  a
dominant focus for their lives. In order for real students
to be attracted into science they will need to see via the
incarnations  of attractive scientists that it is possible
to  have  a  scientific dominant focus  and remain a  real
person in authentic meeting with others.

     It will be helpful for some real students  to  select
as   their   dominant   focus  a  concern   for  improving
communication between scientists  and non-scientists. Such
students   may  engage  in  political  action  which  will
encourage   scientists  and  non-scientists  to  seek   to
transcend their alienation.  The alienation, however, will
not be eliminated by the creation of a new speciality that
studies it intensively.

     Scientists  who  have  dominant  foci  which  do  not
involve  people and  their  real problems  are  likely  to
develop an ultimate concern  for some created thing  which
does   not  merit  ultimate  concern.   Such  idolatry  is
destructive of real persons.

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