williams@kirk.DEC (John Williams 223-3402) (10/09/84)
Oh Boy! Hot Diggity Dog! The guns of universal context
gather for another cosmic shootout. Watch out fer th'guy b'hind
th'wagon, sheriff, I'll cover ya from th'rear.
The arguments being exchanged for the existence of mind
in a physical universe seem to be striving at defining a
partition between hardware and software, message and media. The
atoms and other various forms of matter are modulations
themselves in the media of spacetime. What makes the whole thing
go is the intrinsic instability of these particles, or symbols in
the mind, to oscillate in an ambient environment. The parallel is
striking. Your mind does not need external influence to function
on it's own, although the results are very unusual. This can be
experienced in an isolation tank. This partially what happens
when your reticular formation shuts off when you go to sleep.
Also, the nature of the universe is uncertain. At any
given time, there exists a possibility that a particle will be
created spontaneously. The same is true for your mind. Divine
Revelation or otherwise is the ability for your mind to
experience fantasy in understanding. It is the formation of a
symbol of enlightenment. This can happen anywhere, anytime. It is
impossible for you to predict because you have never experienced
it before. It is for compensating ignorance that we have
something we call free will.
----{ john williams }----
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