Bill:

There is a much wider array of phenomenology connected with live thought and communication than can be readily understood by present scientific insight, and there is nothing illogical about seeking new and better models to incpororate more of the phenomena.

If you exclude thought itself as a phenomenon, of course, then you'rekind of stuck in a universe ofdiscourse defined only by mechanisms of various scales.

The problem with that is that it glues you to the realm of discourse of the structural, when the richest and most interesting realm of discourse (if you're not interested in engineering) is functional.

If LH healed an ankle with his attention, as he reports, that's not explicable, in terms of structure, but it is apparently functionally possible. If his were an isolated incident, of course, it would be easy to dismiss it, but there is a much larger body of reportage around various kinds of healing, and other such pehnomena, than his.

THrowing ALL that baby out with the bathwater is not rigorous or intelligent, IMHO, no matter HOW much bathwater is involved.

Sigh...oh, never mind...


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