Thinking Scientifically

<p><strong><em>Thinking Scientifically</em></strong> is John Fraser's latest wildly original experimental work of fiction: three stories ('The Opera' 'Round the World' 'The Shaft') centred on one theme: while we can think scientifically can we <em>be</em> scientifically?</p><p><br></p><p>We can train as scientists - but that's a job and when we stop doing it - we're the same chimpanzee types as everybody else. When we think</p><p>scientifically what happens to all the other layers the modalities systems of thought and being: the magical the religious the hunting and the gathering the philosophical the artistic...? The characters in the three long tales that make up <em>Thinking Scientifically</em> are involved in science certainly - science as setting records sport endurance ... science as the psychology ... of art: of desire the desire to be a libertine the search for the unknown and unattainable - our Kurdistans: of what we know is there somewhere and leaves us flattened and exhausted by the search. Science - has no end: if it has a scope it is not ours not our happiness certainly. Is it the discovery rather that what we know or would like to know and what we are</p><p>are not at all the same? </p><p><br></p><p>In the end after the exploration and the hypotheses - there's kids maybe not ours crowds and causes bureaucrats. Not at all scientific ... what then? Enough of thought? Of experiment? In the end ... company? A welcome? An opera exotic clubs: the world: and a hole in the ground. The protagonists use their best analyses to draw conclusions and wisdom from these familiar settings.</p>