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>> One of the best illustrations of science playing 'catch up' must be
>> the recent Harvard neurologists using mri machines to identify the
>> 'visual cortex' being stimulated by the 'painter with no eyes' while
>> he was at work.

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>> When Beethoven went deaf, he wrote his best works. "Masters" have
>> always told that to experience greater reality, we have to go 'beyond'
>> our sensual capacity, in a state of consciousness. (Whichis the source
>> of such wisdom they are communicating.)

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>> The greatest breakthrough in atomic science is imminent, being the
>> Hardon particle accellerator about to go into operation. The
>> scientists know that what they are going to see will be beyond
>> anything they have yet experienced, and are understandably , extremely
>> excited.

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>> Reminds me a bit of the 'launcher' in the movie "Contact".

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>> Not unlike the desire for material things growing exponentially, so
>> does the desire for scientific knowledge. Will they be able to explain
>> what it is they are observing once the particle is pulverised?

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>> Not with their senses they wont. Science plays catchup, of that there
>> is no doubt, as the mri example demonstrates, but like the curve
>> exponentionally growing closer to the base line, it never gets there.

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>> The gap is only crossed with a shift in the consciousness of the
>> observer.

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>> BOfL

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> We thought Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" that he wrote while deaf was crap.  If
> that is what human "Joy" sounds like - give us a human funeral any day.
> And indeed any recent human invention such as the "Hardon particle
> accelerator" will surely only be used to make further weapons of mass
> destruction.
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