RE: virus: C of V: Another Religion

Tim Rhodes (proftim@speakeasy.org)
Tue, 4 Feb 1997 21:43:44 -0800 (PST)


On Sat, 1 Feb 1997, Tadeusz Niwinski wrote:

> Tim wrote:
> >This is beautiful! Objective reallity is defined /AS/ Subjective reality.
> >Marvelous!!! Undercut the whole question and cut to the chase. Now, is
> >objective reallity, therefore, as flexible as subjective reallity?
>
> There is no other reality. There is one reality. Our perception of reality
> is not reality itself. These are two different things. It is our
> perception of reality which is subjective. The reality simply is, no matter
> what we call it.

Okay, sure, whatever, Tad. Dis is whats it is an' dats all what it is.
I'll agree with you on that (no need to start a WAR after all). With this
stipulation:

Perception and subjectivity are the lens we use to view reality. And,
just as in Astronomy, we can either spend the rest of our lives squinting
at the heavens and theorizing, or we can work on refining the lens, moving
it to places with less distortion (as with Hubble) or tuning it to
invisible frequencys (Radio Astronomy). I think an understanding of
Memetics is equivalent to understanding light refaction in this analogy.
Not an end in itself, but a means.

Prof. Tim