On the Tao Of Physics#4

Hi
Now the third question.

I am not fully convinced by the arguments of Capra. To tell the truth, I don have an opinion on this. However, the fact that a physicist says so makes
them somewhat credible.Had this been said by a mystic, I wud have outrightly rejected it as case of my area being superior.

Regarding instinct,

I feel everybody is born with it. Everybody can perceive things which can not be justified by reasons of logic, but just we feel it.

If u remember Alchemist, we have something similar saying that nature always gives us signals. We need to listen to them. If we regularly overlook it, we
feel the signals have stopped comin...... Along these lines. What I feel is we stop being receptive about it.

And for the last question,capra has himself given a very good account of it. They were not able to get that brainwave earlier because they were looking
in other direction. The moment physicists started looking for it( as an eastern mystic does)they were able to get it.

Why lay man does not get that instinct:
1. lay man does not even know the objective of the experiments. Even if he gets a result he cant make sense of it for the raeson that he is not aware
that such a problem exists. Say if i pull out the wire and give u a bomb, u wud realize what it is and run away. But if u never knew that such a thing like bomb existed, how wud u identify it. For u it is nothing more than a round ball.

2.he does not actually set out to look for it. Its like it, u know a signal is coming on a particular channel. All these years u were not tuned to it. So u never realize the transmission. The research, training etc that is being talked about is for the correct tuning.

Just to give an example, do u remember how Kekule came up with the structure of benzene. For us, it wud have been a bad dream about snakes but for him that was an insight, a hint by nature, which his instinct interpreted correctly. It came just by chance, he did not try to get that dream

I hope it clears a bit.

Regards
shankar