On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 11:06 PM, Olin Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Surely the "I" that perceives is something. Just because it can't exist >>outside a brain, doesn't mean it isn't real. > > > Its real in the same way that a whirlpool is real -- it has a form and > appears to be a "thing" even though the matter in it changes every second. > It's a temporary pattern with no fixed or permanent substance.
I shed skin cells all the time, and they are replaced by new cells. The skin I had 20 years ago is literally not the same skin I have now. Does that mean my skin doesn't exist, or is only as real in the same way a whirlpool is real? And I'm not asking this rhetorically; I really am interested in your take on this. -- Mauro Diotallevi "The number you have dialed is imaginary. Please rotate your phone 90 degrees and try again." _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
