Re: virus: Maxims: the universe and truth

psypher (overload@fastmail.ca)
Thu, 20 May 1999 21:03:42 -0400 (EDT)

> At 11:31 AM 5/20/99 -0400, psypher wrote:
>

>>...is an idea a real thing if its referent is not manifest? If so,

> to
>
> Yes.
>
>>what extent is the referent real, since its pattern [the idea] 
>>consists of matter-energy embedded in space-time?

>
> To the same extent a map of an imaginary land (e.g. Middle Earth)
> makes it real.

...so would you agree that an imagined complex [middle earth is a good example of what I mean by a complex in this case] can be useful for generating ideas and insights which are of value in relating to the world of space-time?

-psypher



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