[lbo-talk] Baby thoughts

[shag carpet bomb]

At 08:54 PM 9/1/2009, shag carpet bomb wrote:
>>I know lotsa scientists... and I like this.  Big, riefied, anally
>>inductivist science is a relatively new human invention... not science as
>>babies do it, careful, systematic, multimethodological and relational praxis
>>- and, nodding to Merton (against my will), babies are surprisingly
>>transparent and communalist (and they laugh more than most big-S
>>scientists.)
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>>homo faber = homo sciencicus?
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>baby: i cry when it's dark, the light turns on. therefore, crying makes 
>the light turn on."
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>baby: oh dear. when parental unit bends over to to pick up my spoon from 
>the floor, i can no longer see her face. therefore, parental unit has 
>ceased to exist. when i cry, parental unit exists again. crying causes 
>parental unit to exist.
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>as a mentor of mine used to say, "fish swim in the ocean, but they aren't 
>oceanographers."

also, as my sister used to say: for babies, it doesn't actually exist until 
you stick it in your mouth and drool on it.

maybe, if we'd just practice science like a baby, they'd all 
darwin-candidate themselves out of the human race. how nice.

shag