Still sounds like emergence to me. On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 10:23:18PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Aug 22, 4:41 pm, Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That's a pity. I thought it might be something comprehensible, rather > > than just plain mysterious. > > > > Cheers > > > > The ida of property dualism is very simple: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_dualism > > It just means that the same underlying reality can manifest itself as > multiple properties. Let me give a couple of analogies (bear in mind > that these are only analogies). Take a glass of water 50% fill. It > has two properties: > > 'Glass Half Fill' > 'Glas Half Empty' > > Same thing, two different properties. > > Look at the picture here: > http://mathworld.wolfram.com/YoungGirl-OldWomanIllusion.html > > Same picture two different perspectives: > > 'Old Lady' > 'Young Woman' > > -- > > Multiple perspectives of the same reality, all perspectives equally > valid. Neither perspective is more fundamental than the others. > Remember the rough analogies above and now move to my proposed real > exmaple: > > 'Mathematical Description' > 'Physical Description' > 'Teleological Description' > > Multiple properties, same reality. All of these three kinds of > descriptions are on the same level. Nothing is 'emerging' from > anything. All three perspectives are equally real and no one of them > is fundamental. > > That's it. Really simple. > > > --
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