On 28 July 2014 11:25, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote: Actually, comp is terrifying.
Rest assured, it terrifies me too. I think the terror stems, in a sense, from the persistent (and I guess, at the terrestrial level, essential) illusion of control. The idea that "I" could be precipitated into any experience whatsoever with no say-so on "my" part is what seems terrifying. Interestingly, I've sometimes experienced a mild version of this fear immediately before falling asleep. It's the fear of "losing control" to the dreaming state; a kind of existential claustro (or agora) phobia. I've tried to rationalise the terror induced by comp in various ways. For starters, it's not a fear of something in prospect, because if comp is true *it's true right now*. My preferred intuition here, which (despite having been unsuccessful in persuading Bruno) I still feel is not inconsistent with comp, is Hoyle's universal person. It's perfectly possible to think of experience in terms of an endless logical sequence of self-relating observer moments (or experiential monads). Recall that Bruno sometimes says that comp is a theory of reincarnation. If so, then Hoyle's analogy serves as a kind of heuristic in terms of which we are reincarnated afresh into personhood in each and every moment. To put it another way, at the universal perspectival limit, each and every moment is itself an experience of death and rebirth. Now there's a thought. David -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
