From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun Jun 03 2001 - 10:44:01 MDT
In a message dated 6/3/2001 8:50:07 AM Eastern Daylight Time, amara@amara.com
writes:
<< Know Thyself.
I believe that the universe within is just as vast as the universe
without.
To change the world outside requires changing the world inside. Do you
know what are the things uniquely you, that you can offer to the world?
If you lost everything that you knew and loved, what are the things,
your passions, that would drive you to continue living? What are the
things
in your mind that prevent you from being free? If you could build
yourself
over from the smallest dust particle, what are the elements of yourself
that you would begin with? >>
Thanks for your sage words. More significantly, the world within, which seems
to be purely a neurobiological activity will cease upon my mortality :-) The
Universe without, will continue on. No problem there, however, the people,
places, and objects, that I have know, or wish to learn of, have either
already passed or will disintegrate, in a relatively, brief time.
<<It's only when one has tapped the vast resources inside, that one build
and connect with the vast resources outside.
Amara>>
Let's just say that I already know myself, at least intellectually, to know
that the answer lies without, and merely within, though most neuroscientists
would state that the internal/external border is counterfactual. So what is
needed? I believe what is most meaningful to me is a consistent science or
cosmology that provides, well, shall I say hope. Is this possible? I don't
know. Frank Tipler seems remote and a little weird. Moravec seems brilliant
but preoccupied with his chosen profession. There are a couple of scientists
like Max Tegmark, or Jacque Mallah who have touched on "Multiple World
Interpretation" but that seems a leap of faith, more then a science.
Perhaps I am looking for researchers of leprechauns, and am frustrated why
there is a paucity of the researchers? But I guess for the "now" I will
continue looking for the pot of gold, that the leprechauns possess. To me
this offers the best track for hope, that is a computational or cosmological
one. Perhaps this is absolutely futile, I am not sure.
Disjointedly, yours
Mitch
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