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To: TobagoJack who wrote (52569)	8/23/2004 9:40:03 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

<Folks like Maurice already know everything> A "full cup" as they say. DAK

To: TobagoJack who wrote (52569)	8/25/2004 3:35:52 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<Folks like Maurice already know everything > It saves a lot of reading. The things I don't know, I ask my alter-ego, Google, to remind me. <Maurice is wrong> On the contrary, I am right. Actually, each person is right, until reality proves them wrong. That's because existence is defined by the representation in each person's brain, which is ipso facto the correct view of the world. Right up to the instant when it dawns on them that they are, in fact, unfortunately, wrong. Sometimes, they don't even have time for the dawning process. Sometimes, one can be in doubt, but nevertheless, one has to choose a particular state to be in, albeit with tremulous fear that one is in precisely the wrong mode. So, knowing that one is more than likely wrong, one still has to choose some state or other. When in doubt, and even when not, it pays to be on one's toes, ready to rapidly adapt, if possible, to the correct reality which might become evident at any moment. The great thing about democracy is that the summation of all the wrong views tends to better represent reality than the megalomania of a single person, no matter how brilliant, whose brain is simply too small, even if acting in concert with a fleet of politburo members, to encompass the infinite array of possible states which billions of people might choose for themselves as being the best way. I think, and therefore I am. I am, and therefore I'm right. Until I'm not. It's a fact of physics that the observer creates the reality. Without the observer, all quantum states are possible. To make a photon be, one has to stop it and then it decides where it was. Until stopped, it's everywhere. You say I'm wrong. But I'm not until I am, and it's only my own mind which can make me wrong. Same with you Aztecs. Although you are wrong, you are right until you aren't. We can only say, "See, you WERE wrong!" after the event. Not before. We can be very sure somebody is wrong. "If you step off that cliff, you will go splat and die." They might disagree. The test of who is right and who is wrong is decided by the observers who see the splat, or perhaps instead, the amazing miracle of an absurdly flukey escape because of some freak event. A major problem these days is busy-body governments predicting events for everybody so that people aren't allowed to think for themselves. Fat people are told they are wrong. Cigarette smokers are told they are wrong. CDMA makers are told they are breaching the laws of physics. People riding bicycles are told they need a crash helmet. Seat belts are compulsory. Thinking is no longer necessary. Big Brother will tell you all you need to know. Big Brother is always right. I am always wrong. Mqurice