Jan-Anders, Seems to me, you're magazine is asking "what is the weight of an idea?"
Since that's a fairly weighty question, I take it as self-answering! John On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 5:22 AM, Jan-Anders <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ham and John > > About is-ness and nothingness. Picked this question out from a Magazine. > > "What is the weight of the music in an iPod? As we know that there is some > form of information downloaded into the iPod it must have some weight?" > > My answer is: (in some way related to Pirsigs writing of instruction books > for Fortran computers. Lila. ch. ?) > > Computers have memory. When you load information into it it is not adding > more mass or energy. The only thing that happens is that you Change the > information from blank silence into sound. Instead of the zillion zero's in > a row that is the factory presettings of the memory (silence or emptyness) > you change the Pattern of the memory into a certain mix of 1's and 0's. The > physical weight is unaltered but the pattern is altered. Value is > independent from the downloaded pattern. The Value depends on the > interaction between the iPod and the listener. It could be the complete > works of Artie Schroeck. In that case silence would be of higher value? > > I do not have an iPod. The Value of having an iPod is nothingness to me as > I still have my stereo equipment and my record collection in good condition. > Which is somethingness. > > best > > Jan-Anders > > [email protected] wrote 2011-01-14 13.08: > >> Ham: >> >> >> > There IS NO nothingness, which is why there is no otherness in >>> Reality. >>> > The conclusion we can draw from this is that Existence is an >>> "illusion" or >>> > (to borrow Hegel's word) "appearance". Existence is a world of >>> appearances >>> > where the phenomena experienced reflect the 'IS-ness' of the Absolute >>> Source >>> > differentially. >>> > >>> >> John: I certainly agree about the lack of nothingness, but I'm not so >> sure >> about there being no otherness. There sure SEEMS to be otherness in >> Reality, and acting upon this seeming produces useful action. So >> pragmatically, it makes sense to me to go along with the game. Whether >> it's >> ultimately real or not. >> > 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
