Re: OT: reality (wasRe: Atlantean)

Gary Shannon scripsit:

> As a
> quantum-realtivistic-Buddhist-transcendental-idealist,
> I defy you to prove the existence of objective
> reality.  Great minds have tried and failed.  In the
> final analysis one can only choose whether to _assume_
> objective reality exists or to _assume_ that it does
> not.
Well, no.  There are a lot of other possibilities, such as to deny that
this property of "objective reality" actually means anything.  You hand
me a brick and ask me, "Is this brick objectively real?"  What could I
possibly do to come up with a correct annswer to this question?  My answer
would probably be to hand you back the brick and say "You're an idiot."
(This is rather Zen, at that.)

--
"We are lost, lost.  No name, no business, no Precious, nothing.  Only empty.
Only hungry: yes, we are hungry.  A few little fishes, nassty bony little
fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death.  So wise they are; so just,
so very just."  --Gollum        jcowan@reutershealth.com  www.ccil.org/~cowan

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