> On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:11:24 +0200, Leon Hoeneveld
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>>A Situation schreef:

>>> Lots and lots of good blogs and comments here at the site page.
>>> This whole issue confuses me as I am constrained by my evolved brain.
>>> I consider this question from my engineering background, and immediately
>>> go critical and feel my limits.

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>>A limit that we have to cope with is that everything we experience is a
>>translation of our brain. How things are for real we cannot say. No
>>matter how many empirical experiments we do, our prejudices stay.

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>>I once imagined that for many questions a kind of tao-approach would be
>>appropriate. To my understanding this means that in a question both
>>positive and negative answers will be true, at the same time.

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>>Why is there something rather than nothing =>

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>>Q: Is there something rather than nothing?

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>>A: No && Yes

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>>How could an answer be positive and negative at the same time?

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>>Well f.i. if we would choose a virtual unit, meaning the unit does not
>>exist, this still would mean that the world for this unit would show it
>>being different, apart. This virtual unit would have a world where there
>>was something, although the unit is virtual. So there is both nothing
>>and something.

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>>Us being a unit, means we always have to see a world of something. If
>>you loose the unit, there remains nothing.

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>>The world we see defines what unit we are.

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>>Being a more or less variable unit, we also see movement, but instead of
>>  this being outside, it is inside, again defining the unit.

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>>The great task is to find a way to control the unit, but we may not have
>>the tools yet. Or maybe some scientology people:-)

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> Good response.
> I feel like a tack hammer trying to drive 100 penny nails.
> But the situation abides, so I observe.
> My 'feeling' is that the situation is quite 'fake',
> like a painting, with humans being an incidental part of the scene,
> or maybe mold in the frame.
> No 'stage center' for us, just mold on a closet floor, or if you prefer,
> cockroaches in a crack.
> 'Hubris' likes us to concoct puffed up stories, so we do.