Lonlaz, What do you mean by "exists"? How do you define that word? Isn't the question you should be asking not whether something exists, but rather where it exists? For example, pink unicorns exist, but as far we know they only exist in the subjective mind. Canadian geese exist as well, but they exist both in the subjective mind, and in the objective world. In fact pink unicorns are based on our experience as well. We've experienced the color pink, we've experienced animals with horns, and we've experienced horses. We combine all those experiences, muddle things up, and we come up with something that we never experienced all at the same time, and so we say that it exists only in our subjective mind, but in reality even a pink unicorn exists in the objective world, just not in the order we arranged the objects in our subjective mind.
On Mar 25, 3:23 pm, Lonlaz <[email protected]> wrote: > Inspired by the perhaps strange idea of asking if something exists or > not. I ask, does anything really exist at all? Does Blue exist, for > example? > > Now some of us would say that the very thought of being able to refer > to something by a name would be common sense proof that it exists. So > does a general concesus mean that something exists? What about the > color blind? > > Now someone may say, of course there is a color Blue! It can be > measured! Blue is photons oscillilating at 450 nm. But another might > say, that is a paltry existence, a bunch of transient particles > without mass waving about, only to be snuffed out of existance by a > retina. And like the tree that fell in the forest, if the wavy > particles don't hit a retina, are they still Blue? > > Muddling the question further, there are those that dispute Blue is a > color at all. These 'Synthenasist' claim Blue is a taste, a sound, or > perhaps even a feeling. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Minds-Eye?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
