Oh, good. A list with a mildly snarky comment at the end.
So do you also believe there ARE the mind-independent entities bad
luck, good luck, curses, grace, evil, heaven, hell, angels, the
devil, miracles, essences, categories, qualities, relations,
numbers, negative numbers, imaginary numbers, meanings, etc for
starters? It does humble a chap to look upon so open-minded a
fellow.
"Mind-independent" I love that term, so French in its inverse form, so
doubly disembodied.
"Bad" luck and "good" luck? Don't you really mean to ask me whether
there is an entity, "luck," with different aspects? "Good" and "bad"
are obviously morally-based terms, so they are social terms, and
hence, mind-dependent.
Curses? Do you mean the words that are uttered? Or what the words mean
or are intended to bring about?
Grace? Do you mean the heavenly stuff that permeates existence? or
sinuous forms and apparently effortless movement?
Evil? Do you mean an existent thing, such as a Church with a capital C
preaches about? Or the quality of human action? If a quality of
action, then it's like "good" and "bad," a social term.
Heaven and hell? You mean, spiritual regions that some believe have
genuine existence?
Angels? *the* devil?
Miracles? Do you mean instances of divinely suspended physical laws,
or just events that seem to contravene known physical laws?
essences, categories, qualities, relations - Ah, now you're getting to
the meat. The other stuff was simply prologue. I believe that "out
there" in the quantum field, those pulsing, noodling, microscopic
stringy things of energy act in certain limited regions such that at a
macroscopic level (our level of magnitude) they maintain a persistent
stability over a duration of time that allows a perceiver to concur
that they have shape and form, that these shapes and forms exhibit
certain aspects that are called essential, that they exhibit
arrangements of properties that can be called qualities, that by the
similarities of qualities and essences in different persistent quantum
regions (i.e., things) a person can describe a category that contains
them, and that, by perceiving two or more entities, one can interpret
their juxtaposition or collocation as a relation.
Now, I believe that there are persistent aspects of all that
energetic energy in the quantum field that are sufficiently stable
that different observers or one observer at different times can
perceive the same or nearly the same properties. That is, an observer
can form mental constructs of categories, essences, qualities, and
relations, but the provocateurs of these thoughts do exist
independently of the observer, and they persist.
numbers (you actually mean, number, the property of being countable in
some way, and not 1, 2, 3, etc.?)
negative numbers - mental constructs
imaginary numbers - d'oh, they're, like, imaginary!
meanings - mental constructs.
What do you mean, "for starters"? Do you mean that you'll ask about
other words later?
I think you need to be more careful with the electronic signals you
send to my location via the list. These so-called words of yours are
vague and, you know, fuzzy, and it is hard for me to form a
serviceable notion of what you have in your mind.
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Michael Brady
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http://considerthepreposition.blogspot.com/
