Re: MD Intellect as Consciousness

From: Sam Norton (elizaphanian@kohath.wanadoo.co.uk)
Date: Sun Jul 24 2005 - 12:37:34 BST

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> You replied:
>> All in due time. But to peak curiosity (or is it peek?), consciousness
>> surrounds the quantum field as evidenced by the act of observation
>> causing
>> quantum potentials to become manifest to create our world.
>> (Hopefully, Ian will have something to say about that.)
>
> Your syntax is impeccable as always, Platt. It's "peak" (from the French
> *apeak*, meaning 'to hold vertically'), and Websters Collegiate definition
> is: "to reach a maximum, [as] to cause coming to a peak."

Actually it's 'pique', the sense meaning to provoke or arouse, from the
French 'piquer' to prick or sting.

Sam

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