--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Since you are the primary filter through which all input flows,
> > couldn't it be said that since you are the perceiver, you are
the
> > creator also? No POV expressed here, but curious about *your*
> > thinking...
>
> Not without redefining every important characteristic in most
> definitions of the word "creator" that I know. My process of
> perception effects the world I know, but that reality only effects
me.
> I believe that there are people outside myself who are interacting
> with the world also. I may have missed your point completely. I
can
> create a song and be the creator of that, but when I see a tree I
am
> not creating the tree.
>
Actually my hypothesis is simple yet radical-- If the future and the
past occur solely in the mind, why then wouldn't you be creating the
tree you speak of above? All we know about the tree is what has been
observed, and all you specifically know about the tree is what you
are personally observing. Same with the "people outside myself"...
