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 %LIMITS UNCERTAINTY UNDERSTAND PREDICT CONTROL SIN+960830
 %SCIENTISTS PREOCCUPATION DEDICATION KNOWLEDGE GOD+960830
%HEISENBERG WAVE PARTICLE DUALITY QUANTUM MECHANICS 960830

     When  scientists  who are  preoccupied  with  pushing
their paradigm of understanding, prediction and control to
its limits try to do so they find that:

     1.  The more and more distant in  time and space that
they  focus  their attention upon the whole  of  objective
realities---the   less  and  less  that  they  can   know,
understand,  predict and control about  the future details
of the processes which they consider.

     2.  The  less  and less expansive in time  and  space
that they focus their analysis upon  the  details of local
objective realities---the less and less sure they are that
they  can  understand,   predict and  control  the  future
details of the processes which they consider.

     3.  The more and more objective that they  are  about
the  realities  and  relationships upon which  they  focus
their attention and analysis---the  less and less involved
they are in those realities and relationships---and so the
less  and  less  informed  they are about them as  present
realities which enjoy integrity.

     4.  The  more  and  more reflexive that they  are  in
their participation  in  realities and relationships which
they regard as important and worthy of respect---they less
and   less  able  they  are  to  be  sure   the  realities
are transcendent  of their own particular beings;     they
lose  the  ability to agree upon and so their  ability  to
confirm the universal validity of their conclusions.

     Each  expansion  in  scope  is  associated   with   a
contraction  in  certainty.    When scientists presume  to
pretend that they  are able to  expand  both the scope and
the certainty of their own particular science  (knowledge)
they lose humility, credibility, integrity and respect.

     The more compulsively objective a scientist  is---the
less  qualified  the  scientist is  to  deal  with  highly
reflexive realities and intimate relationships.

     The more  thoroughly  reflexive a scientist  is---the
less  qualified  the  scientist  is to  deal  with  purely
objective realities and impersonal relationships.

     The  more  completely a scientist focuses   upon  the
cosmos  as  a  whole  in  a cosmological sense---the  less
qualified the scientist  is to deal knowledgeably with the
particularities  of very local phenomena on the sub-atomic
level.

     The  more  completely a scientist  focuses  upon  the
local  particulars  of  sub-atomic  phenomena---the   less
qualified  the scientist is to claim to have the power  to
understand, predict and  control elements and phenomena on
scales  of time  and  space  which exceed those  of  human
beings and their births, lives and deaths.

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