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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (1717)	10/16/2000 3:30:56 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

I can say that this is highly unlikely, since your imagination would have to come up with events which appear novel to your conscousness in order for you to imagine yourself reacting. The information necessary is far far beyond the information necessary to actualy react to real events. I have dreams that are MORE compelling in their intensity and content that is comparable (if not exceeding) ANYTHING I experience in the "real world". Don't get the white coats yet, Solon and Co., but MANY in my family seem to have this. Are we all nuts, or is our reality just different for people who view the universe this way? When my Dad and I sat in Denny's in Olympia, talking about this kind of stuff on Sunday morning, I can gauran-dang-tee-ya in THAT Denny's in THAT location, my Dad's and my subjective, qualitative reality was SO different than that of anyone else in that restaurant THAT we might as well have been on different planets! Sorry townspeople of Olympia, but most of you were not even close to asking and attempting to answer the kinds of questions Dad and I were asking. Not that we made that much progress... I think some of them were the result of a "too much in-breeding" reality!! <g>

To: TigerPaw who wrote (1717)	10/16/2000 3:37:24 PM
From: Solon	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 28931

That idea is very close to nihlsim. It is possible that nothing exists except your consciousness and we and all that you see are a product of your imagination That is more than I meant to say, although people (such as Emerson) believed it. I don't say that there isn't a material universe, only that the meaning is strictly a product of our consciousness, and that meaning, is a meaning within consciousness, and is a universe within itself. We all know that if we had different sense organs in different degrees, reality would be different. Seeing in 360% would be neat. Thinking the world was strictly vibrations in thousands of gradients, or sonic interpretation, or radar, or magnetism--all would be neat. What would consciousness do with those sense organs? What kind of a universe would it create??