reductio ad absurdam.

it's even coming to science. one of the things i've been pondering recently is what post-modern science will look like. science is the ultimate enlightenment discipline, with its emphasis on reduction, and its power granted by the liberation from the medieval insistence that questioning was an inherent sign of a lack of Faith.

mushy genetics.

i think one of the reasons i'm so intrigued by astrophysicis is probably because it doesn't really require as much reductionism as, say, biology. it looks for answers, yes, but in many cases, it has to be comfortable with ambiguity. perhaps with the infusion of post-modernism into the scientific world, people will become more interested in answering those questions and less concerned with, say, the GUT.

i dunno, somehow this excites me. i'm more than ready to throw off the linear, structural restrictions of the enlightenment world.

this will probably get me into trouble someday.