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"Alan S" <nomail@home.net> wrote in message news:<10m5ql9apt2pq11@corp.supernews.com>...
> "Reason finds it's complete expression as a search mechanism..."? 
>
We live in a chaotic, unpredictable Reality, we agree. For an
individual entity there are *several* possibilities open at any one
decision moment. Non-rational beings make decisions with conformity to
a pattern dictated by evolution. A lion decides whether to sleep or
send his lioness to hunt *8D, for instance. Men instead can open up
possiblities beyond the basic bioloical pattern. We can decide to
sleep or hunt, but also to compose or go to war. We cannot fly, so
Reason searched among the possibilities offered by Reality, given the
limitations this Reality contains, and found a way to fly, actually
several ways: airplanes, gliders, parachutes, rockets, helicopters,
honchi... Reason searched in Reality and was compensated with ways to
fly, maybe there are other in our future (levitation, antigravity, who
knows? we keep searching). That;s why Reason finds it complete
expression as a search mechanism, searching possibilities and turning
them into actualizations that, if not precisely guarantee the survival
of our species, certainly make that survival more probable.

>What a
> load of mental masturbation. That reads like a divorce decree on LSD. It
> never ceases to amaze me the lengths that people go to serve themselves.
> There are some interesting points buried in the ballyhoo but the most

Insulting.

> interesting thing is that in this observance of human existence in an
> unpredictable and sometimes hostile environment fails to examine the ego,

In what way should we examine the ego? Ego-bound possibilities are
also possiblities that reason must search. This search is the Delphi
maxim of the greek, exploration within. Reason is still a search
mechanism.

> i.e.-why people think about their existence in the first place. This idea
> that we are at odds with the "non-living" makes me think the guy stubbed his
> toe the morning he wrote that. While it is true that the trials of living in
> this world of living and non-living things often puts us in situations
> beyond our control, this notion that justifying our existence by prevailing
> over the non-living is only a piece of the puzzle. What about food? We eat
> stuff that we kill. What about inspiration? Love is a powerful motivator.
> What about joy, personal accomplishment, spirituality, the instinct to
> procreate,...the list can go on and on. People often see the checkerboard
> without seeing the frame around it. Yes it is a chaotic Universe, no we will
> never understand it. 
We will never understand it *completely*, but even the understanding
of limitations is understanding.
>All the effort in this piece spent trying to define
> reality also fails to address the truth that reality is completely neutral.
> For example, say we are both sitting in a room with a ball on a table. I see
> one side of it and you see another. We both agree that it is real, but both
> of us are seeing different things because we are on different sides of it.
> The ball is real, it's our interpretation that is subjective. 

That`s the inherent specifity of Life: a totally unique and
irrepetible poit of view for each living rational and non-reational
being that ever existed.

>This knowledge
> is applicable in that the truth is what it is, and even if it appears to be
> a complex quagmire of never ending questions, it's really simple, you either
> know it or you don't. 

See my theory of beliefs, though it is more a model of interaction and
propagation than a theory.

>This awareness is the cornerstone of either success or
> failure, evolution included.
> 
> - A -