Re: [Leica] [Leica} Two cultures: Off Topic and Long

[LP6@aol.com]

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Warning:  Off Topic, and Somewhat Long Note In Resonse to "(Leica) Two
Cultures" note posted on LUG today:  
	
1.  "Vulcan" Logic is merely Logic.   Specializing in mapping facts. 

2.  Feelings about self, others and work involves Psychologic.  Specializing
in mapping intrinsic values.  The co-play and counter-play of facts and values
defines the human experience and condition.  "Vulcan" Logic abstracts the
human condition as geometry and optics abstract the physical world (this logic
can do "violence" to the human condition when out of balance with
psychologics).  

3.  Successful social functioning, including scientific team work, demands a
balance of the two; not, the formation of two cultures around them.  

4.  The former is value vision centered on systems and order thinking (S) and
is a level of value-vision having everything to do with flinite geometry.  The
latter is intrinsic valuation (I) and is all about uniqueness and
individuality having everything to do with the infinite and highly complex
such as human mental life and subatomic physics.  

5.  Einstein's work was largely carried out in the systemic world.  By
comparison, Heisenberg's work was more intrinsic as demanded by the
complexities of his subject matter and gave rise to quantum mechanics. 

     The former describes bodies in space, curvature of space building on and
overthrowing systemic Newtonian Mechanics; whereas, the latter took on the
infinitely greater complexities of subatomic realities.  
   
      Human life and subatomic physics are far more complex than celestial
mechanics or mere optics.  The emergence of two scientific cultures thus has
taken place in physics.  Beyond this, as noted by C.P. Snow, there has been an
emergence of two wider cultures:  natural science and  the humanities.  This
isn't good and is the default setting in the history of human thought.  In
physics it would be nice to have a unified theory such that the work of
Einstein and Heisenberg might become "one".  

	The two culture position is a confession of relative ignorance and
limitations.

6.	A balance needs to be struck so that we go beyond the more primitive  two-
valued, black and white "Vulcan" Logic!   Unlocking human potential and
maximizing the good is more a matter of balancing the three forms of value
vision that define mental life: 
				  A Short Course in Values and Valuation:

	1. Systemic Value Vision (S) = finite systems and order (e.g., geometry and
logic); 2. Intrinsic Value Vision (I) = infinite complexities of persons and
subatomic physics; and 3. Extrinsic Value Vision (E) =  practical and social
things and situations.  
	2.  Balance is necessary (Value vision brought to comprable levels of
sensitivity in all three areas); but not sufficient:  Hierarchical
subordination (ordering) must follow; namely, as  I > E > S; for,  the I-
Dimension is most important and the S-Dimension of Value Vision the least
important as dictated by the selective pressures of evolution itself.  We
simply must go beyond the two culture story into higher levels of value vision
to capture and map the realities of self and world.  

Promising not to dwell on the matter,

Best of Philosophical Light,

Leon
LP6@aol.com