(April 18, 2015 at 9:04 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Because she -is- a solid body, in the way that we take solid to mean. Whats the problem?There's no problem. The myth of Mom includes her 99.99999% empty space which -is- a solid body (except for the part where we have to redefine something completely lacking in solidity as solid).
Quote:You must have a different definition for mythology than I do. I think that you're going to need a hell of alot of poetic license to make any parity between our sensory experience and mythology stick. Your wife not only "seems" solid...to you...she -is- solid.....to you. For some odd reason..I can't seem to unload the dozen odd dirty jokes I have lined up in my mind for this one.....I think I might have accidentally started respecting you....sonofabitch! : wink :The myth is in the idea of Mom, which cannot be found anywhere in the physical reality of her QM particles, atoms, molecules, proteins or tissue systems.
Quote:The comment I responded to, with that quoted section, then..seems nonsensical if you've accepted this. Perhaps you could rephrase? The world as we experience it is precisely what we would expect from equipment with the range of operating parameters ours has....not seeing why that's mythology, or why it is different than the physics that it is an expression -of-?Show me something you perceive without blending it into the complex of ideas which is your world view, and I'll show you a mystical experience.
Where are ANY of the abstracts by which we describe what it's like to be human. Where/what, exactly, is beauty? Love? Inspiration? Hope? You can't define them precisely, and yet you have a sense of them. I'm not arguing free will is real. I'm arguing that most of what it is like to be human is not less real than free will. If free will is nothing, so is beauty. So is goodness. So are honor, morality, etc.
