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- From: stark@dwovax.enet.dec.com (Todd I. Stark)
- Newsgroups: rec.martial-arts
- Subject: Re: ki and science
- Summary: Nature and Spirit, the enduring philsophical dilemma
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- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:09:52 GMT
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- frederic@cybernet.cse.fau.edu (Frederic Woodbridge) writes...
- >
- >> I am sure that if a better, more effective theory of martial arts were to
- >> come along, then the Ki paradigm would eventually fall into disuse. In
- >> the meantime, I don't know a better way to teach certain aspects of MA,
- >> than in terms of Ki.
- >> Mike Rilee
- >
- >Yo Mike, I'll leave it up to you to come up with "a better, more effective
- >theory of martial arts". I don't know how in on Earth anyone would think
- >there was a "more effective" way. I do suggest though, that in your
- >your quest for a "more effective" way, you ask whatever you believe in to
- >grant you a thousand or so years because that's approximately how long it
- >took to discover and develop Ki.
- >Yours sincerely,
- >Frederic W., III.
-
- I suspect the point (at least my interpretation) was not to propose a martial
- arts development project -- but to pose a thought puzzle that illustrates that
- the concept of a universal life force serves as much as a framework, as
- a single distinct mathematically renderable physical phenomena.
-
- There is sufficient precendent in intellectual history, I believe,
- to render the notion of Universal Life Force as a piece of intuitive
- elegance that will not be easily replaced, even though we may find
- ways to describe it more precisely in the sciences.
-
- kind regards,
-
- todd
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