DB> On 03-14-98 Frank Masingill wrote to Keith Knapp...
 FM> .  When you think about it deeply, does it appear reasonable
 FM> that there could be a reality "external to ourselves?"
 DB> Seems like I can conceive of a holodeck with nobody on it Frank. It
 DB> could be in all other respects, identical to the one I live on. However,
 DB> the emotional and other aspects of relational reality are not going to
 DB> exist without us, and they are the ones we really do care about.
   You are one thinker, Day, that I do not attempt to respond to lightly
because your thoughts demonstrate broad reading and bold exploration in the
realm of thinking.  I'm unfamiliar with the origin of the term "holodeck" and
if you have expanded on what it is I, unhappily, missed any messages you 
ight
have written on it.   How would you describe the difference between a
"holodeck" and the "Universe" or "Cosmos" as symbols for that which we
experience but do not know for certain whether it is bounded somewhere or
unbounded?  
   So, I'm somewhat drawn to what you say without fully understanding it and
that leads me to beg you to expand a bit on it.  I've waited a few days to
make this response, partly for the reasons I'm adumbrating here but also due
to some pressing business in the non-philosophical realm as you probably also
have from time to time.
Sincerely, 
                                     Frank
                                                                              
                                                       
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