On 01-30-98 Gerry Normandeau wrote to Day Brown... 
 GN>  I do not seek "truth", I seek "reality independent of the observer".
 GN>  
 GN> To have "Reality independent of the observer" necessitates the 
 GN> extinction 
 GN> of the observers existence. For one cannot be independent of reality. 
 GN> Unless your definition of reality is only what the observer sees and 
 GN> believes to be reality is not what another sees and believes to be 
 GN> reality. 
That assertion was Richard's. My own opinion is more like yours. 
So far as I can tell, I was born on a holodeck.  There is not 
any way to be indepenent inasmuch as I am a projection in three 
dimensions the same as everything, and everyone, else I see. 
 
Imagine an image on a TV screen; the camera pans back, and you 
see the apartment the TV set is in, with the couch potatos who 
are watching the tube. Pan back again, and you see the darkened 
theatre with the audience watching the movie about the people who 
are watching the tube.... pan back again, and you see the theatre 
is part of a virtual reality halodeck; pan back again... and? 
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 * OFFLINE 1.58 * If God is alive can he *pro*create? 
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