From: David MOREY (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Thu Feb 26 2004 - 09:53:18 GMT
Hi Platt
Perhaps the mind is in the relationship,
in the between.
DM
----- Original Message -----
From: "Platt Holden" <pholden@sc.rr.com>
To: <moq_discuss@moq.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: MD MOQ and can David M touch the sun?
> David M,
>
> > Platt
> >
> > So close to home you can no longer see the wonder!?
> > Think again, you read some lines of black in a book,
> > from a printers, from some ideas written by a dead man,
> > about how light travels through space, and you understand
> > something new about the cosmos, if you cannot see any leaping
> > going on here you are definately missing something!
>
> What I see is a human being human. It would be a leap for a monkey or a
> dolphin, but not for you or me. Gleaning meaning from patterns of symbols
> is what we do.
>
> > PS New idea. Is quality in your head? We perceive things.
> > We use concepts and sensations. But we do not think
> > of the world as in our heads, we do not experience
> > the world as in our heads, but it goes away when we shut our eyes.
> > Maybe, visual perception is more like touching. When a photon enters
> > the eye from the sun -if you look directly, the wave function stretches
> > from the sun to my eye, it collapses on my eye, for a moment there is a
> > wave function stretched out between us, we make contact and the wave
> > function collapses, the potential connection between the sun and me is
> > realised, I have touched the sun, right out there in the sky. If I was
not
> > here that wave function would be realised differently, I therefore
change
> > the emissions of the sun. This connection makes perception possible.
Sounds
> > good or mad?
>
> Sounds good to me. My question is, "What's the mind in?" Any thoughts?
>
> Regards,
> Platt
>
>
>
>
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