David Canzi -- non-mailable wrote:
In article <1155343017.484599.18580@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Sphere <sphere1952@gmail.com> wrote:
Put another way: Assume God is only a story
told by millions of people. I am only a story told by trillions of
cells.
God and I have the same ontological status -- we either both exist
or both do not exist.
Princess Buttercup and William Goldman (and S. Morgenstern for
that matter) are stories told by trillions of cells. Perhaps the
difference between the ways the stories are told matters, and is
what distinguishes reality from fiction. (Maybe I shouldn't be
posting this just before going on vacation: farting and getting
out of the elevator.)
The difference matters -- but what distingushes reality from fiction?
Perhaps it's what you think the correspondence is between
what is perceived and what is written. If the author perceives it
then it is reality. If the author abstracts it then it is fiction. If
the
author abstracts it a whole lot then it is a boring text book.
--
David Canzi "It is time to end the oxidationist censorship of our
children's chemistry classes and make room for other
theories." -- Institute for Phlogiston Research
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No essence. No permanence. No perfection. Only action.
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