On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Ian Murray wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Miles Jackson" <cqmv at pdx.edu>
> >
> > Yeah, what's this irritating tendency to bring up Godel in discussions
> > of social and/or political activities? It's almost as bad as chaos theory
> > (don't get me started on that one).
> >
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>
> Why not? This is a list for looking at the political implications for
> developments in the natural and social sciences so what's there to be
> afraid of in trying use chaos theory to develop analyses of the current
> political economy? Or are we to let the financiers on Wall Street and
> elsewhere have an epistemic monopoly on such tools as they continue to
> fuck up the lives of millions of people?
>
> Ian
>
Good point. However, I was thinking of psychology and sociology (fields I'm most familiar with). You should watch clinical psychologists who have no interest and little capacity in math bullshit about "chaos theory". Truly painful.
Miles