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I would simply like to suggest that I enjoy the Principia Cybernetica and do not wish to see this potentially very important aspect of its discourse degenerate into an impulsive embarrassment for all concerned. I do not think any of us enjoy watching smug mechanists dismiss pathetically limited conceptions of God presuming to have done away with the subject altogether anymore than we might enjoy listening to religious zealots trying to impose contrary strictures on our investigations based on some narrow interpretation of some antiquated, derivative dogma. Both represent the worst in human nature and could hopefully be eliminated from such an important discussion as they do not merit a place in genuine philosophical investigation. I think it is a bit mean spirited to post poor English when a few corrections of articles and sentence structure would remove the haze of condescension toward the speaker, so I might ask the writer if it is permissable to "clean up" the message without changing its content. The mechanists should quit presuming that they are fighting with certain types of idiots that may have annoyed them in the past and conduct a real dialogue about where contemporary thought might genuinely be in this respect which might begin with the rather asinine definition of God at the top of the section. If we constrain ourselves to this definition the discussion is unworthy of our time, if we admit that we are dealing with the Absolute, it is what we are ultimately considering anyway. The behaviorists are past their prime, and it is no longer(as if it ever were) proper to suggest that what you have not yet detected, much less proved(HA!)does not exist. Just what is it about our current view that tells us there is NOT disembodied mind? Or more to the limitations of the criteria, our only instruments for making these determinations, just what would Godel's Proof suggest we can say about God? I hope that makes it clear enough.
I will not be amused if I see further postings by pompous gearheads or wild eyed zealots who want to convince me. Science and philosophy is not about being convinced!
Please write something worth reading.
Cordially, JRH.
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