Salutatio Day!
02-Feb-98, Day Brown wrote to Gerry Normandeau
          Subject: Time and Again
 GN>> I do not seek "truth", I seek "reality independent of the
 GN>> observer".
 GN>> To have "Reality independent of the observer" necessitates the
 GN>> extinction of the observers existence. For one cannot be
 GN>> independent of reality. Unless your definition of reality is only
 GN>> what the observer sees and believes to be reality is not what
 GN>> another sees and believes to be reality.
 DB> That assertion was Richard's. My own opinion is more like yours.
 DB> So far as I can tell, I was born on a holodeck.  There is not any
 DB> way to be indepenent inasmuch as I am a projection in three
 DB> dimensions the same as everything, and everyone, else I see.
 DB> Imagine an image on a TV screen; the camera pans back, and you see
 DB> the apartment the TV set is in, with the couch potatos who are
 DB> watching the tube. Pan back again, and you see the darkened
 DB> theatre with the audience watching the movie about the people who
 DB> are watching the tube.... pan back again, and you see the theatre
 DB> is part of a virtual reality halodeck; pan back again... and?
Are you saying that because I am not looking at my wife right at
this moment she does not exist?
 Dicere...
 email address (vrmeic@spots.ab.ca) 
Richard Meic
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