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From: vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (Cliff Joslyn)
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Subject: Re: The nature of reality.
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Date: 26 Mar 88 17:15:42 GMT
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In article <373@thirdi.UUCP> sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode) writes:
>...maybe at the bottom level, it
>not a map but something one has created.  

At the bottom level, our maps, our minds, our selves, everything that is
and allows us to even talk about maps, is our bodies.  It is
*impossible* for me to visually perceive the world in a way inconsistent
with my retina, optic nerves, optical ganglia, and visual cortex.  I
*cannot* *perceive* the world of X-rays, or of ultra-sonics, or of
micro-scopics, or of quantum tunneling, or a myriad of other modes of
existence of the world (i.e.  "reality"). 

So what, these things don't exist?

There *are* more things in heaven and earth. . .

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| Cliff Joslyn, Professional Cybernetician 
| Systems Science Department, SUNY Binghamton, New York, but my opinions
| vu0112@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu
V All the world is biscuit shaped. . .