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Subject: Re: MD Atomic awareness
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> --On Tuesday, April 03, 2001 9:39 PM -0500 3dwavedave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > All
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> > After your heated discussion about "Are atoms aware?" and even if this
> > is only so to some miniscule, very limited degree, I think the more
> > important question is:
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> > What practical difference(s),in terms of human experience, would it make
> > if this theory were true?
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> > Or even if this was never somehow "proven" to be "true" to a majority of
> > humans,
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> > Could it still be a "good" theory?
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> > 3WD
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Hi all, this is my first contribution to any mailing list. I feel as though
I'm barging in a bit, perhaps without the full inf. from previous
discussions but this last comment from 3DW got my attention. Here's my two
peneth, and intoduces my overall view of the MoQ.
JEZ
> If we work backwards from our own awareness, we can see that we have
awareness in the first place because sometimes we are not aware. W e know
that we are hardly ever consciously aware of our brain activities in
co-ordinating etc. our body functions, but we have to accept that at least
our brain-body is aware of itself. Backwards to grouping of cells molecules
and the stuff we normally wouldn't consider as having made choices, if they
have chosen to bond with something else there must be at least an awareness
of something else.
How is this practically useful? You can't build a bridge with this point of
view but maybe a mental bridge, the one that the MoQ tries to construct
between what we see and what we think we know is just as practical to our
mental state of being. We feel we have a handle or the hint of a handle on
something that creates an order to our world, a possible moral shared
existence, which helps us, carry out our practical tasks. It offers a
continuum of dynamism and broadens our human experience.
As an artist I often used to ask myself what am I contributing to the world,
and to others. It seemed superfluous a human extravagance, just more junk,
more clutter. Shouldn't I be doing something practical like growing food or
using my 3d abilities to building that bridge? But if we accept the
intellect as a separate entity, or evolutionary level, one, which doesn't
need food or bridges, then we can see these mental constructions are very
practical indeed.
I believe those who are interested in the MoQ are pragmatic practical
thinkers who require a practical rational to what they feel are important
questions but at the same time are seemingly superfluous issues to human
endeavour. In other words we do not want be cranky although we must
recognise at least the benifits of the acceptence of *something* else.
My overall point of view is that the MoQ should be taken as a practical
psychological step to nurturing the recent arrival of the minds awareness.
JEZ
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