One of Capra's mentors, Eric Jantsch , who was an astrophysicist who turned to social issues, probed at this sort of approach in his book Design for Evolution . Finally, one of the difficulties I have with this dialogue web site is that it is written and dialogue is of course about verbal parleying. This message board isn't intended to be a dialogue, and that should be clarified for new visitors. Verify the dynamic John, I thought science had more to do with the replication of events and outcomes using identical procedure and materials as a method of verification. This replication, in my opinion, has been mistaken for the test of reality when it may be nothing more than verification of one facet or perhaps even one dimension of a reality in the same way a piece may be mistaken for the whole if that piece is all that is known.
Myth allows consciousness to venture beyond the boundries of what is known and more.
It allows a way to embrace and bring knowledge back to the group society where it will no doubt be tested by these scientific methods until it can be judged useful or useless to common society. Somehow it reminds me of the old particle-wave controversy. Myth speaks to the semantic part of our mind. O sages standing in God's holy fire As in the gold mosaic of a wall, Come from the holy fire, perne in a gyre, And be the singing masters of my soul. These lines are deeply meaningful, and as deeply mythical.