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%SCIENTISTS' RESPONSIBILITIES 850710
The sub-culture which places ultimate value upon the
ability to understand, predict and control places upon its
members an ultimate responsibility to understand, predict
and control in regards to all aspects of their lives.
The possible responses to such a responsibility
include: (1) Fulfilling the responsibility, (2) Pretending
to fulfill the responsibility.
The first possible response is logically impossible
because it would entail total self understanding, self-
prediction, and self control; each member of the sub-
culture would know exactly what they were going to do the
rest of their lives. This would entail knowing what each
other member of the sub-culture was going to do the rest
of their lives. This would entail full knowledge of the
whole universe's future. This is logically absurd.
The second possibility is the natural consequence of
placing ultimate value upon the ability to understand,
predict and control. That responsibility leads as a
natural consequence to corporate ignorance regarding the
behavior of the members of the society who respond by
accepting the ultimate responsibility to consistently be
in the mode of trying to understand, predict and control.
The members of the sub-culture can maintain self-respect
only by developing a game of mutual self deception which
is invisible to them according to the rules of the game of
mutual self deception. Only then can they believe that
they are fulfilling their responsibility to always be
understanding, predicting and in control of their own
behavior.
Another possible response to the notion of ultimate
importance of understanding, predicting and control is to
reject such a priority as absurd and to seek more
integrative ideals which are more likely to help a
community mature with more personal and communal
integrity, to the greater satisfaction and meaningfulness
of the members of the community which can be unified
through open and honest communications which are essential
to all kinds of integrity.
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