It would constitute proof that Marcus exists if he were to admit that I was correct in our years-ago argument when I said that gender defines an equivalence relation on the set of people.
Frank --- Frank C. Wimberly, PhD 505 670-9918 Santa Fe, NM On Sat, Feb 22, 2020, 11:32 AM Steven A Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Nick - > > What I object to is the notion that such experiences in extremis are èin > principleç more likely to be true than ordinary ones, or, further, that > there is any way to confirm the implications of one experience except > through further experiences. > > I believe that *experiences en extremis *might well offer some > *perspective* or qualitatively different "truth" than more mundane > experiences. I also believe that once one is habituated/tuned/primed for > this kind of perspective, that it can be somewhat persistent. > > When I went from watching clouds form/transform/dissipate entirely naively > to having a sense of the higher dimensionality of pressure, temperature, > and humidity wherein the dynamics evolve it felt rather transcendent. > Now I can watch clouds evolve (especially via timelapse) in a very > different way. > > A. Square had a similar experience after A. Square gave him a guided tour > of the third dimension... > > ? > > - Steve > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives back to 2003: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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