[From Wayne Hershberger 920511]
Dag Forssell (920510.22:00)
Our ONLY source of information is the intensity (or energy)
signals we experience from our nerve endings.
When all PCT'ers have internalized this, discussions of
epistemology will go away and discussion of religion will be
reduced to a discussion ABOUT religion as a systems concept
phenomenon.
Dag, this is where the epistemological questions BEGIN, not end.
For instance, reflect upon the two concepts, energy and
information, used in your first sentence?. Do we experience the
energy or the information, or neither? Do we, instead,
experience phenomena (the constituents of time and space), as you
imply in your second sentence. How are the three concepts
related? Energy, information, and phenomena. To each other? To
an ecological control system?
What about this greeting? "All that is empirical, is
phenomenal."
Warm regards, Wayne
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