At 05:51 AM 5/13/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>From: Carl Fink <carl_at_fink.to>
>There's an interesting implication of Greg's comments on the Green vs. later
>ages (that since there was no individual consciousness in the Green earlier
>ages, we can never truly understand them).
>
>See, as a science-trained person that sounds like a non-sequitur. We
>understand lots of things that we can't experience personally. I understand
>the QUANTUM, which is pretty darn weird. I understand, oh, the reason that
>certain floral extracts (colchicine from the periwinkle) cause mutations,
>but I've never experienced meiosis.
>
>So one suspects that Greg's using the word "understand" somewhat differently
>from me.
Maybe. It might be interesting to debate whether science every really knows
anything except the effects of the physical world. It might be interesting
to debate whether anyone can really KNOW quantum physics, since so much
depends entirely upon the observer. Certainly you can know the effects
observed. But I do not wish to debate that hee since it will lead nowhere
useful for us (but contact me off list Carl, if you wish to contininue this!)
But I think that a better example of what I am talking about would be to
ask whether you understand what happened before the Big Bang.
Greg Stafford, greg_at_glorantha.com
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