He says: > > "the way of theory suggests to us that the primary source of all of our > human activities is, supposedly, to be found in mental representations > inside the heads of individuals" Harry says: > Manifestly ridiculous. We may hypothesize that is going to rain. But the > source of the hypothesis is observational. We see circumstances that lead > us to expect rain - from what we already have observed at other times.
Harry, please forgive me for being so.......English. It is very late and is a vulnerable time for me. Otherwise I wouldn't desire to be so.....aggressive in my use of certainty. That is why night has always been a time of difficulty for us. We blame it on the "spirits" but it is really not a comfortable time for talking except as war. 1. Rain is a word not an event. It describes nothing in its mono-syllable. What it creates in the mind is so general that it may not be the event at all except in the mind of another "manifestly ridiculous" thought process. We certainly can't create rain with any degree of certainty and predicting it is still in the "probable" realm. We organize the world and predict with some regularity what will happen in certain very basic circumstances. Quantum cheese holes and such are so different from that language of nouns and adjectives that we may very well choose to be stuck here on earth because we can't imagine our way out of the bricks that make up our language. 2. The Universe is so vast that chaos is probably closer to what it is than our thoughts. Breaking free from our ways of thinking is the real problem. REH _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
