>A 'way of understanding the world' is a conditioning, a particular mode of thinking. Usually >they require training. An "objective" observer watching a tribal

>A 'way of understanding the world' is a conditioning, a particular mode of thinking. Usually >they require training. An "objective" observer watching a tribal ritual will find the whole >ordeal it as meaningless as an "objective" observer who is watching scientists operating a lab. >To understand this is scary for a "man of science/math" and it drove me to tears when it hit me >from the sky. They might find both situations to be equally meaningless, however one gives people the power to understand the natural world; the other does not. The great progresses our world has seen have largely been done by folk engaging in scientific processes - not tribal rituals. Watson & Crick discovered the shape of DNA in a lab, not around a fire.