dmb, Oh my, have you had a realization? Or are you still going to hurl insults at me because I will not adopt the perspective you've concocted from your small portion of the flux-of-life? Marsha
On Sep 25, 2010, at 10:37 AM, david buchanan wrote: > > Ian said: > > I can't see what it says to John's point about the redundancy ( non > pragmatism ) of multiverses / many worlds ? > > > dmb says: > > Did John have a point about redundancy? > > In any case, here is the basic idea: John said, "I just don't see the need > for a ridiculous kludge like multi-uni-verse". And I responded with a quote > from James explaining the main idea behind this "ridiculous kludge": > "The truth is too great for any one actual mind, even thought that mind be > dubbed 'the Absolute,' to know the whole of it. The facts and worths of life > need many cognizers to take them in. There is no point of view absolutely > public and universal." (James says in the intro to his "Talks to Teachers") > > Basically, James is saying that there is no objective truth, no absolute > reality. Life is too rich and thick to be nailed down by any single view or > perspective. Each of us can only take so much from the flux of life, we can > only select a certain slice or notice a small portion of experience. Each > cognizer can only grapple with a handful of sand from an endless landscape of > experience. > > I'd add that "multi-verse" is probably the right word when talking about > physics but this notion that life needs many cognizers is probably better > referred to as a "pluralistic universe" simply because we are not living in > different universes so much as we have many different ways to take it. > > > > 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/md/archives.html ___ 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/md/archives.html
