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To: epicure who wrote (5187)5/13/2000 6:57:00 PM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9127
 
>and reality itself (if we are seeing reality itself) is
composed of different layers of reality- Einstein reality, subatomic physics reality, Newtonian
reality- and these conflict- see the single photon dual slit experiments contradicting Newtonian
reality.<

Technically these are not reality ... but various interlocking abstract models (of various degrees of sophistication) whose purpose is to order perceptual reality. The dual slit experiment doesn't contradict a "reality", but a model. Even more picky ... the overextension of a particular model. To misquote the Coen brothers, "reality ... abides."

I'm sure you know this - allow me the semantic nitpicking.



To: epicure who wrote (5187)5/14/2000 11:50:00 AM
From: The Barracuda™  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 9127
 
One can KNOW that one doesn't KNOW how other people perceive the world - if one is not an egomaniac. But that isn't the same thing as knowing the underlying nature of reality. It is only appreciating that the known is not really known- maybe.


You are describing a situation of ignorance.


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