[Marsha] And what 'idealism' and 'delusional mysticism' might that be? Even your precious perceptions are mere conceptual constructs. The eye, light, optic nerve and brain are all conventional, conceptual constructs. Is there even one thing that is not dependent on being conceptually constructed and established by conventional agreement?
[Krimel] The mystic delusion is that somehow one can escape mere conceptual constructs. Being at "one" is no less a conceptual construct than regarding sensation as manifold. The problem with idealism is that is has no roots to pin it down it is a set of concepts free of sensible restraint. The world is all in your head, if you can meaningfully be said to have a head. However one regards the dependence or independence of one thing on another it is a conceptual construct. My argument has always been about the flexibility, and power of a particular way of seeing. It is about adopting the smallest number of concepts to account for the greatest amount of perception. It is a set of concepts that inherently suspicious of themselves. And just for the record what does it mean to say that all things are mutually dependant? Does your existence in the good old USofA require the existence of each individual quark in the Orion nebula? Does dependence mean necessity in your book? 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/
