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Old 08-25-2003, 10:24 AM   #23
Måns
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Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Stockholm
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Måns has just left Hobbiton.
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On my super-intelligence, yes that thought has stricken me many many tiems before and I ahve worked hard to convince the rest of the world about it, not yet succesfully, for some obscure reason [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img].

I will not offer my opinion open the pure physics partof this discussion since I haven't even started college yet, far less university and hold my self, for once, not learned enough to join the discussion seriously. I will instead explain what I meant about my somewaht confused post, guess that's a downside of making posts too late. Anyway, my point is that you all distinguish reality and imagination. What is reality? All we know of it is what we feel, hear, smell, see or taste. Our perception of these is quite simple. Our eye, for example, sees something, translates what it sees to a signal that is sent to the brain's vision centre. At that stage, you see what your eye sees. What happens when you read something? The signal isn't sent by the eye, you recieve it in the same centre and it is shown to you in exactly the same way, but vaguer. You say that teh wall in front of you exists, when you imagine the slightly larger wall of Minas Tirith, what difference is it? Imagination is the same thing as reality, in our minds. IF every cognitive being ceased to exist, I would deem that the universe was no more, if I could. None are there who sense it, thus it is not since what we sense si the only possible definition of reality

Måns (Don't forget the circle above a in Måns! [img]smilies/wink.gif[/img] Copy, paste!)Måns is pronounced like latin mons, mountain.
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