@Suikerbuik
"Life is too complex for human beings to completely understand at this point in time. Science likes to work with 1 variable and sometimes 2, but this is not how nature works and thus we lack complete knowlegde."
I do want to avoid coming off as a tight-assed old fuddy-duddy here.
Nor do I mean to be argumentive.
I appreciate the elucidation, Suiderbuik! :)
But...wouldn't you agree that Peat, for instance,
has gone a good ways--a long ways--
beyond: "Life is too complex for human beings to completely understand at this point in time"?
And just leaving it there then off to painting?
Hundreds of rational, scientific essays, interviews.
And has he not done so without being "reductionistic"...?
At least not reductionistic in the sense he himself intends
when he makes that general critique of contemporary medical/pharm "science"?
Suikerbuik
"Nourishing life is the basics for life to flourish and evolve (road to complete knowlegde), thus not reductionistic."
Again, with utmost respect :) :
There are many people out there trying, in some romantic way
to "nourish life"--
running for hours,
doing all out sprints 'til exhaustion,
consuming smoothies of raw kale and fish oil,
devotedly not killing animals and instead eating raw crucifers, legumes, and soy milk...
etc, etc, etc...
...All of them with a very strong feeling
that they are "nourishing their life."
Have they avoided "reductionism"...?
Are they the model?
Suikerbuik
"However determing what eating well is and how to nourish life to full extent is a question without definitve answer because this has been established in a reductionistic way of understanding."
Should we reduce the discussion
to either/or?
Either we know everything?
or,
if we don't know everything, we know nothing? :)
Suikerbuik
"Someone's feeling however is worth gold."
I agree, to some degree.
But...aren't there millions of our fellow humans, see above--
sprinting, sweating, panting, stuffing themselves with fish oils, etc--
whose genuine, heartfelt feeling, would be were you to ask them,
that they feel wonderful, full of life, flourishing...?
Again, thank you for your thoughts.
I don't mean to be bitchy.
"Life is too complex for human beings to completely understand at this point in time. Science likes to work with 1 variable and sometimes 2, but this is not how nature works and thus we lack complete knowlegde."
I do want to avoid coming off as a tight-assed old fuddy-duddy here.
Nor do I mean to be argumentive.
I appreciate the elucidation, Suiderbuik! :)
But...wouldn't you agree that Peat, for instance,
has gone a good ways--a long ways--
beyond: "Life is too complex for human beings to completely understand at this point in time"?
And just leaving it there then off to painting?
Hundreds of rational, scientific essays, interviews.
And has he not done so without being "reductionistic"...?
At least not reductionistic in the sense he himself intends
when he makes that general critique of contemporary medical/pharm "science"?
Suikerbuik
"Nourishing life is the basics for life to flourish and evolve (road to complete knowlegde), thus not reductionistic."
Again, with utmost respect :) :
There are many people out there trying, in some romantic way
to "nourish life"--
running for hours,
doing all out sprints 'til exhaustion,
consuming smoothies of raw kale and fish oil,
devotedly not killing animals and instead eating raw crucifers, legumes, and soy milk...
etc, etc, etc...
...All of them with a very strong feeling
that they are "nourishing their life."
Have they avoided "reductionism"...?
Are they the model?
Suikerbuik
"However determing what eating well is and how to nourish life to full extent is a question without definitve answer because this has been established in a reductionistic way of understanding."
Should we reduce the discussion
to either/or?
Either we know everything?
or,
if we don't know everything, we know nothing? :)
Suikerbuik
"Someone's feeling however is worth gold."
I agree, to some degree.
But...aren't there millions of our fellow humans, see above--
sprinting, sweating, panting, stuffing themselves with fish oils, etc--
whose genuine, heartfelt feeling, would be were you to ask them,
that they feel wonderful, full of life, flourishing...?
Again, thank you for your thoughts.
I don't mean to be bitchy.