Hi Platt -- [Ham said]: > So perhaps, instead of asking "Does time exist?" we should start > by asking "Do WE exist?"
[Platt asks]: > Could you ask the question if you didn't exist? I could not ask the question without a body, if "asking" means writing or verbalizing it. However, pondering the question requires only my intellectual awareness. The intellectual function requires a working central nervous system which is my organic counterpart but not my awareness itself. The question then is: What is meant by "the real me"? If the real me is that biological object by whose physical identity and behavior you identify Ham Priday, it exists. On the other hand, if the real me is my subjective awareness -- my self-consciousness -- it is known only to me and has no objective existence. Cognizant awareness is a unique phenomenon in that it "borrows from being" to exist, yet is fundamentally not an existent. Man may be the only creature that straddles the S/O fence dividing subject from object, being from non-being. As a self-conscious entity, he is endowed with the capacity to realize the duality of existence. As for breaking down this duality into differentiated objects in space/time, I side with Micah in explaining this as "affective experience". In other words, man creates the objects of his experience. Essentially yours, Ham Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
