Hey Dan,
> > RICK:
> > Is a tree a forest??? The forest does NOT = a single tree. The forest
=
> > the sum total of all trees.
> > Is a real thing Reality? Reality does NOT = a single real thing.
Reality =
> > the sum total of all real things.
> > Do we disagree on this?
>
> DAN:
> My reality does not make up the sum total of all real things; my reality
> is what's real to me. Phaedrus talks of William James and the debate
> concerning whether the squirrel going around the tree went around the
> man circling the tree as he was watching the squirrel watch him back. Is
> that tree really the forest? No....
RICK:
I think we're in agreement here. The tree is not really the forest... that
is, one's personal reality is not the whole Reality itself... even though it
is to that person.
But wait, you also wrote...
DAN:
Our respective perceptions of reality are not just parts of the whole of
> reality; they are the whole of our reality. Without our respective
> perception of trees in the forest there would be no trees and no forest.
> Not for us...
RICK:
Right... there would be no forest for us if we didn't perceive the trees...
which does not in anyway indicate that there would be no trees in the forest
at all....
I think we're in agreement,
I'm sure we're having fun,
Rick
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