From: John Clark (jonkc@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Dec 27 1999 - 10:12:37 MST
Dan Fabulich <daniel.fabulich@yale.edu> On December 27, 1999 Wrote:
> <sigh> Imagine FUNCTIONALLY man.
I can't, in fact I have no idea what you mean . I have two contradictory theories
to explain my inability:
1) You have a special feeling of insight caused by a knowledge of reality that can
not be communicated to those like me who lack mystical ability, just as you can
not talk about color to a blind man.
2) Your special feeling has a more pedestrian cause. like indigestion. And asking
somebody to imagine something functionally is gibberish because functionality
means doing something and it's doubtful you can "do" imagination at all, and certain
you can't do imagination without doing it.
I will leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine which of these theories
is my favorite.
John K Clark jonkc@att.net
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