--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In > [email protected], "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > > For me the word Awake is pretty simple and conveys my > > understanding that PC is in the foreground all the time > > along with whatever else is going on. > > But it doesn't work universally as a metaphor, again > because people think in terms of opposites, and > polarities. When most people hear the word 'awake,' > in the back of their minds they think that the antonym > is 'asleep,' as in deep sleep, as in the absence of > all subjective experience. This doesn't map to the > distinction between 'before realization' and 'after > realization.'
In my observation, when this metaphor is used the antonym tends to be dreaming, not deep sleep, which is a much closer mapping. (Not perefect, because when you wake up from a dream, you don't usually say, "Oh, now I see that I was really awake the whole time.") ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
