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To: snarks_when_bored
Please note that the quote you cited ends with the words "something more primitive and fundamental about nature", where by 'nature' is meant 'the physical world'.

Yes. And I contend that the primitive and fundamental reality of the physical world is that it is illusion. It is the nature of human consciousness to draw firm conclusions from incomplete information and appearances. I call it "flat earth" thinking. Physical appearances have lead to incorrect conclusions about the nature of existence throughout human history. The more we learn about physics the more the illusionary nature of the physical world is revealed.

56 posted on 12/07/2004 12:27:02 PM PST by Semper
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To: Semper
...I contend that the primitive and fundamental reality of the physical world is that it is illusion.

An illusion with the persistence and the heft of the physical world is, I would argue, reality. Your (presumed) unwillingness to walk into the path of a speeding 18-wheeler conveys your own sense of what's real and what's not, wouldn't you say?

61 posted on 12/07/2004 12:36:31 PM PST by snarks_when_bored
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