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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jbe who wrote (86551)	8/26/2000 6:44:27 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Is psychology it's the behaviorists who say, like the physicists, if A looks and acts like B in every discernable way, and there is no way to test A against B in such a way as to produce a difference, then A is the same as B. The only way to tell them apart is to have God's eye. Einstein used this same mechanism to demonstrate to his satisfaction that the force you feel in an elevator, acceleration, is exactly the same force that holds you to the Earth, gravitational acceleration - they are the same thing. There is no experiment that you can do in the elevator that allows you to detect the difference between "real" gravitational acceleration and "induced" gravitational acceleration. So, could someone self-centered truly behave in a way that does not seem self-centered and really be a selfish altruist? When is an act no longer an act? At the point that it is flawlessly executed. Mother Theresa may have been the most selfish person in the world to appear to be an altruist, or she could have simply been an altruist. The distinction is not worthy of exploration IMO.