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<div>My comment on "emotion" was not aimed at any one, or any story told on this blog specifically, but at the general, human-kind orientation, in which we all take part.</div>
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<div>My glitches with your story are at the "for dummies" level, mostly. Your analysis or presentation of the inputs at the start is, for my questions, too foggy (just why is also foggy---no doubt, my own ignorance is a factor). Another factor is that my head keeps jumping back to the notation and notions (diffy forms, Clifford) I was familiar with decades ago. This causes me to lose track while reading it. It may be that formal logic for you is too far in the past also. I want to know what idems you are not going to explain, and how that are set out be common experience, to the degree possible.</div>
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<div>ciao, Al</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Dienstag, 17. November 2015 um 02:36 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "John Williamson" <John.Williamson@glasgow.ac.uk><br/>
<b>An:</b> "Nature of Light and Particles - General Discussion" <general@lists.natureoflightandparticles.org><br/>
<b>Cc:</b> "pete@leathergoth.com" <pete@leathergoth.com>, "Nick Bailey" <nick@bailey-family.org.uk>, "Mark, Martin van der" <martin.van.der.mark@philips.com>, "David Williamson" <david.williamson@ed.ac.uk><br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [General] SU(2) equation set</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Hello Al,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">Hi Chip:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">The challenge is to overcome the tendency of the human mind to synthesize abstract stories with emotional appeal but lacking in coherence. Formal logic is the only hope of imposing counter discipline. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="0000FF"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">Agreed. Coherence is vital. Formal logic and discipline as well.</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;color: blue;">One does need, occasionally, to “synthesize abstract stories”. One needs the IRON discipline, though, of keeping them within the strict framework of BOTH what has gone before that works well AND (more importantly) absolute agreement with ALL of experiment. As you say, that is hard, very hard, even very very very hard. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;color: blue;">Eventually, to solve Hilbert's sixth, someone has to do it. In the absence of an Einstein or a Newton or a Maxwell - one of us must step up to the mark. Ok, chances are anything we try will not quite hit the target – but it is fun playing the game anyway.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;color: blue;">So – tell me where you think, emotional appeal aside, my abstract story lacks coherence. Please?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;">---Al</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.0pt;font-family: Verdana;color: blue;">Tootle-pip -J.</span></p>
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