> Dan: > This is all true. So. Do you believe that reality as you understand it > to be is something solid and separate from you as an individual? > > [Krimel] > "Reality as I understand it" is a set of concepts I have acquire over the > course of a lifetime of "being in the world". It _is_ me and I _am_ it. My > conceptual self changes movement to moment as I assimilate new experience > or accommodate my conceptual self to account for new experiences. > > Do you really believe there is nothing separate from yourself?
[Dan] If the world is you and you are it, then why the question? [Krimel] I think you misunderstand. "Reality as I understand it" is almost certainly not all there is to "Reality". My understanding arises from the interaction of my social and biological patterns with a whole bunch of inorganic patterns that at least for the most part seem utterly apart from me. I think James' distinction between precepts and concepts sums it up nicely. I recommend to your attention his chapters on the matter in Some Problems of Philosophy, especially Chapters 4, 5 and 6. I repeat my question because I am curious: Do you really believe there is nothing separate from yourself? http://books.google.com/books?id=hYnQxQ6xWMsC&dq=some+problems+of+philosophy +james&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=6VutXKo_al&sig=WzFDttmONRXCqgqfIvEK 8ocFKGs&hl=en&ei=lL1CS_q7OM-ztgeSorjaAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum =1&ved=0CAgQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=&f=false 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/
