[pbecke]

I think the big problems have been solved, but the world is caught in a time warp created by extraordinarily die-hard reductionist "scientismificists", who have even bamboozled scientists with a capacity for discursive thought, philosophers and theologians.

It might not have been possible without the enthusiastic support of big government and big business, who thrive on "scientists have found...", i.e. whatever they want to put across.

Mike and others have drawn the rational conclusion that mind is the key player in all of this, and isn't that precisely the implication of the pivotal role of the observer in Relativity and Heisinger's U P?

Yet, nobody, it seems, either a philospopher, a theologian or a theoretcal physicist has said, "Right! Enough's enough! Let's stop pretending that when we have deduced something with ineluctable certainty, by nothing less than a priori reasoning based on mathematical computations, if doesn't fit our the reductionist mindset, or seems completely alien to what be consider to be even the outermost boundaries of our empirical science.... it does not exist! Let us admit openly that putting across empirical science as the ultimate paradigm of human knowledge and understanding is a pretentious, nay risible scam. We have been acting like halfwits, in deference to our endemically cretinous brethren, besotted with the notion of their being the high priests of all knowledge. Man, not the physical world, is king. Period!"