The social imperative was for science to reliably turn out facts, on the model of government procurement. Reliable production requires routinization and quality control. Fallible human judgement must be eliminated, so that the process becomes mindless and thus controllable.
I expect him to argue as a typical rationalist, but he doesn’t. He’s got an unusual take that I haven’t grokked. He expects me to be a typical anti-rationalist, which I’m not.
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No, you are not. I think that when you decided that minds cannot be rationally explained, your rational universe blew up, so you retreated and tried to fix a buddhist universe instead?
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Hmm, I also think that's a mischaracterization of David's position. But I'll let him answer, if he chooses. Or you could read his voluminous writing on the subject :P
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We tried a few weeks ago, but seem not to be able to understand each other’s main point. Peculiar.