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    %PERSONAL DISCOVERY KNOWLEDGE SCIENCE OBJECTIVE 910818

     The   physical  scientists  make  their   discoveries
through the manipulation,  dissection  and  measurement of
the objects  of their   studies.    They  make  a   virtue
of    detachment,   objectivity  and   subdued   emotions.
They  regard     with   suspicion   personal  involvement,
subjectivity   and  open  and  honest    expressions    of
emotions.   They respect  cognitive processes    involving
sophisticated/complex    mathematical  procedures;     and
suspect cognitive processes  which  are totally lacking in
mathematical sophistication/complexity.

     It   is   well  to  note  that  when   it  comes   to
interpersonal    human     relationships   virtually    no
meaningful    discoveries  can    be   achieved    through
manipulations,    dissections, measurements,   detachment,
objectivity,    subdued emotions,  and/or     mathematical
sophistication/complexity.     The discoveries  which  can
be  made  by   such  procedures  most  often   pertain  to
whether  or  not a person's physiology   is  abnormal   or
diseased in some serious way;  and  does  not pertain to a
person's ideals,  values, attitudes,  thoughts,  emotions,
desires, etc.

     Attempts   to   manipulate,    dissect  and   measure
people   to  learn  something   about   them;     engender
responses    by   which   the  people   seek  to   prevent
discovery.  When we are approached in detached,  objective
and  unemotional ways by others;   we become defensive and
seek  to prevent those who approach  us in  such ways from
discovering  any  meaningful  aspects   of  our    selves.
People   who  seek  to    know us   through  sophisticated
and/or complicated mathematics;  fail  to  get to know us,
and fail to come to  know  how little  they  know compared
to   what  they  might   come   to  know   through   other
non/mathematical approaches.

     Attempts    to   formulate   comprehensive   theories
regarding the  universe       through       manipulations,
measurements,    objectification,     and   mathematically
sophisticated   and/or  complex  procedures are doomed  to
failure;     because  such procedures  cannot  lead to  an
approach  to people who  are part  of the universe---in  a
manner  which will  result  in any  meaningful discoveries
about  the people who know  the most   about    themselves
as    parts    of     the     universe.    Mathematically,
knowledgeable  people tend to be difficult to get to  know
as   persons,     because   they   are   on   guard    and
psychologically very complex beings. Their theories of the
universe carefully avoid all considerations of the  nature
of   the  observers  of  the  universe,   and  avoid   all
considerations  of  the  intimate  personal  relationships
between/among  the  observers  of  the  universe.    Their
theories  do not deal with the relationships which are  of
primary interest to most of the observers of the universe!
In   what   sense  can  such  theories  be   regarded   as
comprehensive  or meaningful?  They may be interesting and
in some sense practical; but that is not the same as being
comprehensive and/or meaningful.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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