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RE: Today Show Sybill Shepherd and NDEs
March 21, 2015 at 5:03 pm
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(March 21, 2015 at 1:45 pm)Surgenator Wrote:Well, obviously the answer is God but don't ask how God can exist outside space and time yet interact with it.(March 21, 2015 at 12:24 pm)Mezmo! Wrote: F-O-R-M
Read it too quickly. However your answer still doesn't explain why something would take the form of something that is completely different. How would object A know the form of object B? Something needs to tell object A what object B form is. That something needs to be able to communicate to object A and to object B. When object A is fundamentally different from object B, how can a communicator exist? A communicator requires to be made partly made out of object A and partly made out of object B, two fundamentally different things. If one object is composed of two fundamentally different things, are they really fundamentally different? Because the communicator cannot fall into object A stuff or object B stuff but somewhere in the middle.
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Honestly the more Chadwooter/Mezmo talks about mind the more I think it's just an inert abstraction like math or logic since it's a pattern. Maybe that's assuming too on my part but he gives us nothing to go on here. I'm agnostic(ignostic?) about his poorly defined formal explanation of what mind is. Pattern? Okay which pattern is mind? He sounds more like a Platoist than an Aristotelian since he seems to be saying a boat's patterns can exist without there being things exemplifying these patterns.
Also it's odd to say a particular wooden boat is made of wood but that "being wooden" is not part of the patterns that make up that particular wooden boat. It's odder still to say "being wooden" exists in actuality independent of things being wooden. This is all very confusing and sounds more like Platoism than Aristotelianism.
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