--- In [email protected], "ED" <seacrofter001@...> wrote:
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>
>
> Steve -
>
> I assert nothing with certainty. I try to understand what you Bill and
> Mike and others are talking about. If I do say something you consider
> incorrect, I would like to hear your alternative view-point.
>
> --ED
>
> Darn you, ED! And here I was trying to manipulate you into saying something
> that would steer the topic to the subject of phenomenal
change and it's relationship to static Being (A topic of particular
interest to philosophers!) WELL! If you won't allow yourself to manipulated for
my egoistic gratification, then i shall have to plow
on without you helpfully asking the right questions at the right time!
IMO, phenomenal change is comprised of One-Thought-Moment snap-shots
manifested by What Is trying to look at Itself. Each moment of perceived
change is complete in itself, but we mentally string them together via memory
into a series. This came to me in meditation as the realization that the
mind-stream is actually discontinuous. Thoughts are just like sub-atomic
particles. They appear and disappear, but they seem to be both particle-like or
wave-like depending on how we attend to them. They also seem to conform to the
Quantum Zeno effect. Focus on any particular thought and you can hold it within
attention. Release single-point concentration and the thought smears into an
indistinct streaming which is wave-like. The physicist Henry Stapp (I highly
regard him!) thinks this might be an important factor in the operation of the
attentional will. What do you think, based upon your meditational experience
with both open-end witnessing and single-point concentration?
Steve
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