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QuikSand · 04-08-2005, 04:16 PM

Thanks for the effort, JG. I need to chew on the latter half your point #3.

The whole concept of knowldege itself affecting reality is trouble for me. Just seems like shifty ground. It all smacks of phlogiston and ether and other since-discarded theories that once sought to explain difficult phenomena.

If there's a particle out there somewhere, doing something, without my knowledge -- I just want to believe that its interactions are based on where it actually is, and I have a hard time understanding what little old me (and what I might be able to measure or comprehend about that particle) has to do with it.

04-08-2005, 04:16 PM	#17
QuikSand lolzcat Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Annapolis, Md	Thanks for the effort, JG. I need to chew on the latter half your point #3. The whole concept of knowldege itself affecting reality is trouble for me. Just seems like shifty ground. It all smacks of phlogiston and ether and other since-discarded theories that once sought to explain difficult phenomena. If there's a particle out there somewhere, doing something, without my knowledge -- I just want to believe that its interactions are based on where it actually is, and I have a hard time understanding what little old me (and what I might be able to measure or comprehend about that particle) has to do with it. Last edited by QuikSand : 04-08-2005 at 04:17 PM.