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

To: Solon who wrote (1720)	10/16/2000 3:40:30 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

Seeing in 360% would be neat. I just closed my eyes and imagined doing that! Owww, I think I hurt myself...

To: Solon who wrote (1720)	10/16/2000 3:55:51 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

a meaning within consciousness The 4 blind men after examining the elephant all had a different concept of what the elephant was, but that didn't change the elephant. The universe is what it is regardless of how well we understand it. TP

To: Solon who wrote (1720)	10/16/2000 7:00:16 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

meaning is strictly a product of our consciousness, That, to me, is like saying that gravity exists as a product of consciousness. The thing you describe, meaning, is a combination of information and context. TP seems to view this more inertly than I do. I feel that this "flow" of information plus context is an awareness. Does that mean that rocks think? Not like we do but they do store and record information about their journey. We used to use the phrase "the rocks tell a story of ..." or "the rock record says" in Geology Camp. I never really considered the anthropomorphic angle to this, but in a really strange way, it is similar to what I'm describing. It is the recording process that TP is describing. But there is a sophistication component that goes along with this recording process that is an analog to JPEG compression. The record of the rock is poorly coded and very literal. The coding of this post is highly symbolic. I think they are exactly the same thing. The Awareness (as my Dad calls it) or Cosmic Force (as I call it)is really a variable much like mass, but describes the active process of information coding, transfer and utilization. This parameter exists in degrees of complexity, I think.