On 22 February 2014 14:25, Craig Weinberg <whatsons...@gmail.com> wrote:
If you say yes to the doctor, you are saying that originality is an illusion > Not an illusion, an invariant. > and simulation is absolute. > Not absolute, but hopefully sufficient (i.e. the idea of a level of substitution). Hope that helps. David > Arithmetic can do so many things, but it can't do something that can only > be done once. Think of consciousness as not only that which can't be done > more than once, it is that which cannot even be fully completed one time. > It doesn't begin or end, and it is neither finite nor infinite, progressing > or static, but instead it is the fundamental ability for beginnings and > endings to seem to exist and to relate to each other sensibly. > Consciousness is orthogonal to all process and form, but it reflects itself > in different sensible ways through every appreciation of form. > > The not-even-done-onceness of consciousness and the done-over-and-overness > of its self reflection can be made to seem equivalent from any local > perspective, since the very act of looking through a local perspective > requires a comparison with prior perspectives, and therefore attention to > the done-over-and-overness - the rigorously measured and recorded. In this > way, the diagonalization of originality is preserved, but always behind our > back. Paradoxically, it is only when we suspend our rigid attention and > unexamine the forms presented within consciousness and the world that we > can become the understanding that we expect. > > > On Friday, February 21, 2014 8:39:47 PM UTC-5, David Nyman wrote: >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdxucpPq6Lc >> >> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
