User:Silverback
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semi-degree-ed philosopher scientist, judge my posts on the merits, not credentials
I took a test linked to on User:RyanFreisling page. Strangely, I scored 88% materialist, even though I was unable to fully agree with what they would seem to consider the quintessential materialist question, "Anything can be reduced to simple understandable components", because I think it is possible for there to be emergent properties at higher levels of complexity. I was surprised that I was so low on their idealist rating. I guess they don't consider the pursuit of truth an ideal.--Silverback 07:08, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
You scored as Materialist. Materialism stresses the essence of fundamental particles. Everything that exists is purely physical matter and there is no special force that holds life together. You believe that anything can be explained by breaking it up into its pieces. i.e. the big picture can be understood by its smaller elements.
[[please contact me Silverback - I really liked the way you edited the depleted uranium part about disabled veterans and angered someone who pushed Arthur Bernklau, a Korean War Vet with a bone to pick with the VA and no first hand knowledge of DU - Bernklau used Douglas Lind Rokke's mouthpiece Bob Nichols to put out grossly false article all over the net about Secretary of VA resigning due to mushrooming DU scandal in late 2004 or 2005 - that article has been reposted periodically even under some other author's name - please, contact me DUStory-owner@yahoogroups.com - thanks Roger] |
