Marsha --
Ham, Aren't you talking about space, which is where appearances do not exist.
I don't see it this way. Appearances are experienced dimensionally (because of man's space/time mode of awareness), and we call the whole procress "existence". That events are experienced in sequence and distributed in space is a function of organic sensibility. We intellectualize this perspective as the knowledge of our reality. But even the physicists have determined that the critical density (mass) of interstellar space equates to less than one hydrogen atom per cubic meter, which means that physical existence is almost entirely a void -- empty space, nothingness.
Objectivists have concluded that the "stuff" of reality is bundles of energy spread out into infinite space. Most here share that conclusion, because they can't accept the view that they live in a "virtual reality". They don't understand that all experience is interpreted Value, specifically the value of Essence from which we are all negated. Nor do they understand that the "universality" of knowledge manifests our individuated relationship to the primary source. Indeed, the reality that we call "existence" is about as far from ultimate reality as finite experience can ever be.
I still cringe when I hear people boast that "they live in the REAL world" as opposed, of course, to those of us who hold out for a more substantive reality. What about you, Marsha?
Best regards, 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/
