On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:00:04PM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote: > Hi James and Russell, > > Could a middle ground be found in the notion that "something" is a > differentiated piece of Nothing, where Everything (1st person notion) and > Nothing (3rd person notion) are one and the same?
Intriguing. Why do you say Everything is 1st person and Nothing is 3rd person?
> Violations of the notion
> of conservation only seem to obtain when we conflate the 1st and 3rd person
> viewpoints.
>
This seems likely.
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