Re: [tied] Re: Wheels.

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From: Glen Gordon

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Sent: Friday, September 22, 2000 6:46 PM

Subject: Re: [tied] Re: Wheels.

Glen wrote: If we add up all the contributions that the East supplied to Western thought, it may be considered more direct than indirect. "God doesn't play dice," he [Einstein] said - it wasn't a very scientific thing to say, let's face it. So what influenced him to say this? Case in point.

The point of this non-scientific bon mot was to express disagreement with Bohr's "Copenhagen interpretation" of quantum theory, which could with some justice be regarded as influenced by Eastern thought. Einstein was defending, figuratively, the Great Clockmaker, the deterministic God of the West (and he was wrong, by the way). Do you mean that anything unscientific, religious or spiritual is "lux ex oriente"???

Piotr