From PhilPapers forum Philosophy of Science, Misc:

2016-10-02
Space as Negation of Objects, Nothing
Reply to Daniel Davis
You are so interesting to me, like an old friend of mine (I'll drop a name, sorry)- John Lennon.  Brilliant chap from across the pond whom I loved madly but who drove me f***ing crazy.  He f***s with me.  I always learn from it ultimately, but it is a roller coaster ride of confusion (chaos ? to - a better, more advanced - order-- I think, I'm never sure....)
An aside, I just watched a splinch of Meet the Press, and I'm moving to Ireland if "Larry" Trump becomes our chief executive here in the US.  We got through the "Larry" Sanders scare, but GOD (excuse me, there I go again) help us, that that racist, misogynistic (excuse me isming) fool Trump who will continue to exploit the loopholes for the elite as a businessman, while building in some new ones as the president.  Scary stuff.  I keep hoping that he is enacting a purposeful metaphor for how f***ed up everything is, particularly here in America, rather than really believing what he says.  I've wondered if he is a benevolent psychopath with a Machiavellian philosophy, maybe somewhat like GOD (oops) has to be in the face of the "game."  As Einstein would recommend, don't overreact to illegitimate forces so as not to fortify them, yet SPEAK, even become "the skit."  Anyhow, I digress to point that Domenic probably blew his brains out (if he didn't weeks ago) just anticipating the extent to which this thread of the garment of his topic is a fatal flaw that put this conversation on the dollar rack at Goodwill.   Do I get sanctioned here for not just talking about GOD but also politics?  Let me know.

So, our conundrum...  Me injecting that goofy dude GOD in a philosophical conversation about Space, something that is avoided by scientists as "it cannot be measured"? I'm a therapist who has worked with a lot of kids with Autism/Asperger's, which "afflicts" me and most of the real professors at the University of MT and beyond.  You want to quantify a therapy that has clinical relevance (i.e., it's not strictly behavioral, like the ones the NIMH will fund such as Applied Behavioral Analysis, with easily operationally defined constructs, that yield the high levels of statistical significance that they like when you crunch the numbers--you can create little socially appropriate robots who 'hold together' at school until they get to about fourth grade where social demands become intimately more complicated...  So to be a real healer/helper you have to be a creative scientist who strives to define the intangible. X Sp