[Buddha-l] Query about Francisco Varela

[Bernie Simon]

> As a scientist, I am very happy to focus only on things that exist. 
> What would be the use of focusing on things that do not exist? As a 
> matter of fact, it seems that is the provenance of philosophy, and 
> frankly, not much has come out of those efforts, although there has 
> been a lot of argument for roughly 2000 years.

Science talks about quite a few things that have never existed: ideal 
gasses, perfectly elastic collisions, and so on.

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Bernie Simon / Jinpa Zangpo
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