RE: virus: Re:[Fwd: Re: memes at the meme site]

Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Fri, 12 Sep 97 15:50:54 -0400


>Does science say, if you can't prove it, you can't use it,
>or is that scientism I'm thinking of?
>
>Robin

Well, since it is scientism (and it's siblings) which feel content to put
words in the mouth of science, it must be scientism, cuz science ain't
said it.

_Technology_ says it, though. After all, technology is the use of things.
If you can't use it, it ain't technology.

IMHO, any valid model of the universe can develop a technology. This is
my main argument against the utility of shamanism.

(Technology is also culture independent....)

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