tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post6231121132625554976..comments2023-11-03T08:52:13.914+00:00Comments on The Moonshine Memoranda: VIRTUAL REALITY - (A Post In Which Miss Dreamy says not to worry - she doesn’t know what any of it means either...)Selena Dreamyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-84566228154137804102008-08-15T12:49:00.000+01:002008-08-15T12:49:00.000+01:00This implies to you (?) that this 'invisible omnis...This implies to you (?) that this 'invisible omniscience' does not exist outside of or independently of - and prior to- mankind, yes? The we preceded it, that it derives only from us?... <BR/><BR/>God, it's nice to be back in this vividly coloured land...<BR/><BR/>..and for God's sake, be thankful for the rain!Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467412541030183747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-24594596832424570562008-08-14T11:53:00.000+01:002008-08-14T11:53:00.000+01:00Good point, there, Jonathan - not, perhaps, invent...Good point, there, Jonathan - not, perhaps, invented so much as extracted from the subconscious of the species...Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-32525288332376811982008-08-14T07:34:00.000+01:002008-08-14T07:34:00.000+01:00How do you know that invisible omniscience is a pu...How do you know that invisible omniscience is a purely invented quality?Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467412541030183747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-45981621513883890672008-08-14T07:32:00.000+01:002008-08-14T07:32:00.000+01:00Aha..I thought you were talking about epistemologi...Aha..I thought you were talking about epistemological traditionalists (curious concept that that is).<BR/><BR/>How odd, firstly, to have changed the sabbath from saturday. Odd toor, for certain gentlemen to command other Ladies and Gentlemen regarding what to do with the intimate, private details of their unclothed lives. I would have thought a tactful dose of good advice would be more in line:)<BR/><BR/>....just thinking out loud, but unless you include sex with family members, everyone that anyone has ever had sex with was once a 'stranger'...well, as we understand the term.<BR/><BR/>Another thing: are you implying that modernistic relativists cannot in thmselves be tyrants and boots of bossiness?Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467412541030183747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-81895621253884752242008-08-13T12:22:00.000+01:002008-08-13T12:22:00.000+01:00...let me put it this way, Jonathan: “traditionali......let me put it this way, Jonathan: “traditionalists” - by inventing invisible omniscience - are the ones who believe we are all creatures of some anthropomorphic authority who decrees we should go to church on Sundays and not have sex with strangers...Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-82242435911820576392008-08-13T07:38:00.000+01:002008-08-13T07:38:00.000+01:00'For thetraditionalist.... does not fail to resurr...'For the<BR/>traditionalist.... does not fail to resurrect<BR/>a determinism which maintains that intelligence... is pure derivation and powerless to<BR/>alter the sequence of events.' <BR/><BR/>Exactly, though by traditionalist you mean pre-Quantum perspectivist? I guess you mean post Newton too..which in the larger picture, to me anyway, is still pretty modern.<BR/><BR/>Yeah it's jolly decent of science to reassure us of what we knew anyway..that our minds are independent of matter...or do I oversimplify in some sweepy way?Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467412541030183747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-78765233005577638452008-08-13T07:35:00.000+01:002008-08-13T07:35:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03467412541030183747noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-84679513855362849312008-08-12T13:11:00.000+01:002008-08-12T13:11:00.000+01:00“One wonders how much longer the Virtual world can...<I>“One wonders how much longer the Virtual world can be considered vitual...”</I><BR/><BR/><BR/>Excellent point, Crushed. <BR/><BR/>Reality would not, of course, ultimately, remain <I>a priori</I> in a virtual sense of pre-perception (or logical necessity), but very much <I>a posteriori</I>, having involved the entire materializing function of knowledge...<BR/><BR/>Very broadly, this is what is sometimes referred to in physics as the weak cosmic censorship hypothesis - or the equivalent (in parapsychology) of being unable to prove the <I>genesis</I> of a “ghost”Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-76238159212335144042008-08-12T13:04:00.000+01:002008-08-12T13:04:00.000+01:00...and Mutley, darling, are you still watching Eas......and Mutley, darling, are you still watching Eastenders? <BR/><BR/>Stop that, at once!Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-18713294491636194302008-08-11T20:32:00.000+01:002008-08-11T20:32:00.000+01:00I for one cant perceive anything right now as I ha...I for one cant perceive anything right now as I have drunk seven cans of white lightning....Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-64299645664341061132008-08-11T19:56:00.000+01:002008-08-11T19:56:00.000+01:00Ultimately, the laws of thermodynamics imply deter...Ultimately, the laws of thermodynamics imply determinism.<BR/><BR/>And I would argue an element of consiousness.<BR/><BR/>Intelligence? Well, I think the universe itself has evolved it, but it the begining it was no more than a primal consciousness driving inexorably to heat death.<BR/><BR/>Certainly, I think all partcles are basically photons engaged in different forms of dimemsional travels- as in massed partclies are basically high wave function photons trapped in a spacewarp.<BR/><BR/>One wonders how much longer the Virtual world can be considered vitual...<BR/><BR/>If we impart our consciousness into it...Crushedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02479751225625007588noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-88336904811932685642008-08-11T16:32:00.000+01:002008-08-11T16:32:00.000+01:00Nicely put, Helen - clearly, you've grasped the pr...Nicely put, Helen - clearly, you've grasped the principle of the thing. <BR/><BR/>(...and who said that women are retained only for their high ornamental value?!)Selena Dreamyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11629908887644614404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-633172162044104844.post-12535190737232180362008-08-11T12:52:00.000+01:002008-08-11T12:52:00.000+01:00So one shouldn't be concerned with low traffic at ...So one shouldn't be concerned with low traffic at their blogspot, for even one visitor foretellls the existence of an entire continent? Whew! I was getting that falling tree in the forest feeling.Helenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02424903260701425603noreply@blogger.com