RE: [-empyre-] old discussion, new discussion

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

Interesting - my brother is a geomaticist and works with some of the
largest databases anywhere. I'm not sure what an artist would be able to
contribute - in fact there are politics of such databases, but they're
explored by the users (local Native Americans for example in British
Columbia).

In any case, I'm not sure - at all - that there is a 'scientific world-
view' at this point - any more than there is an 'artistic world-view' -
in spite of Kuhn and post-Kuhn etc. In fact, scientific process is often
an accumulation of heuristics and 'making fit' (to misquote Bohm) - and
doesn't necessarily imply anything at all about a 'world-view' any more
than a painting necessarily embodies a world-view (although of course one
can talk about 'the world of the work of art' or literature or science
etc - but that's really another issue altogether, and is highly locally-
dependent (on the particular work).

Alan


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