Re: virus: Maxims: the universe and truth
Joe E. Dees (joedees@bellsouth.net)
Thu, 20 May 1999 20:16:02 -0500
From: "psypher" <overload@fastmail.ca>
Subject: Re: virus: Maxims: the universe and truth
To: virus@lucifer.com
Date sent: Thu, 20 May 1999 21:03:42 -0400 (EDT)
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> > 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?
>
Of course, since the source for the components used in its
constitution (which were shriven of their original context and
recombined in imagination to create the "middle earth" context)
is worldly perception of matter/energy residing within the
aforementioned spacetime.
>
> -psypher
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