McKone Osteopath

Osteocalcin.

We mentioned this in Kraków, Poland at the
Weekend. Thanks to Martin Reutt for sending me this link. The skeleton defends us from disease and trauma: this is why it’s called osteopathy.

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Spent the weekend with an amazing group of students from the Akademia Osteopathii, Kraków. We covered the osteopathic philosophy, history of science, which included perception, phenomenology, hermeneutics, the original osteopathic method, how A. T. Still was able to do what he did, and the history of osteopathy. Ask any of them, how many sciences are there? They know. Great weekend.😁

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Interview with osteo.doc.stech

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“No scientific theory is a collection of facts. It will not even do to call a theory true or false in the simple sense in which every fact is either so or not so. The Epicureans held that matter is made of atoms two thousand years ago and we are now tempted to say that their theory was true. But if we do so we confuse their notion of matter with our own. John Dalton in 1808 first saw the structure of matter as we do today, and what he took from the ancients was not their theory but something richer, their image: the atom. Much of what was in Dalton’s mind was as vague as the Greek notion, and quite as mistaken. But he suddenly gave life to the new facts of chemistry and the ancient theory together, by fusing them to give what neither had: a coherent picture of how matter is linked and built up from different kinds of atoms. The act of fusion is the creative act.”

J. Bronowski, Science and Human Values, 1972.

A day out in London. 😎

“Being someone who spent his life grinding lenses and studying optics, Spinoza knew at first hand that both Lucretius’ account of perception and Descartes’ account of perception were mistaken from beginning to end. From this mistake, or mistakes, flowed the errors of metaphysical dualism, and these have haunted British empiricists until the present day. Spinoza knew that perception is a psycho-physical activity, and is not the passive reception of ideas or of ‘lifeless images’.”

Stuart Hampshire, Spinoza and Spinozism, 2005.

Fantastic weekend with the first year of the Akademia Osteopathii, Poznań, Poland 🇵🇱. We covered the original osteopathic philosophy, the original osteopathic methodology, the history of philosophy and science, influenza, and the history of osteopathy. Fabulous questions, for example, what should do to develop osteopathy? Get a stethoscope!! 😁

“Every high school student knows that Newton discovered gravity, that Darwin discovered evolution, even that Einstein discovered relativity. But when it comes to the composition of our universe, the textbooks simply say that the most prevalent element in the universe is hydrogen. And no one ever wonders how we know.

“Ultimately, she did what every scientist yearns to do - discover. In Cecilia’s case, her discovery was one of the most fundamental breakthroughs in scientific history: determining the atomic composition of stars. But the odds against her doing so were daunting. How did she do it? I asked myself.”

Donovan Moore.

“Powerful as it has proven to be, this bleached-out physical conception of objectivity encounters difficulties if it is put forward as the method for seeking a complete understanding of reality. For the process began when we noticed that how things appear to us depends on the interaction of our bodies with the rest of the world. But this leaves us with no account of the perceptions and specific viewpoints which were left behind as irrelevant to physics but which seem to exist nevertheless, along with those of other creatures. Not to mention the mental activity of forming an objective conception of the physical world, which seems not itself capable of physical analysis. Faced with these facts one might think the only conceivable conclusion would be that there is more to reality what can be accommodated by the physical conception of objectivity. But to remarkable numbers of people this has not been obvious.”

Thomas Nagel, Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, The Limits of Objectivity, The Tanner Lecture on Human Values, Brasenose College, Oxford University, May 1979.