Geoff replied to Bjorn :
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> > Not really. What I meant was that the stucture that you find in narratives,
> > for example, beginning - middle - end, are as well immanated in the way we
> > percieve and make sense of reality. And this structure is immediately
> > filled with interpreted meaning at the time of perception. This presuppose
> > that meaning is "out there", not just "in here".
>
> out where?
Anybody think that this pertains ?
> "Through the very act of observing, we thus actually define
> the physics of the thing measured," says Frieden. He adds
> that while unfamiliar, the idea that "reality"--or, at least,
> the laws of physics--are created by observation is not new.
> During the 18th century, empiricist philosophers such as
> Bishop Berkeley were raising similar ideas. Much more
> recently, John Wheeler, a physicist at Princeton University
> who is widely regarded as one of the deepest thinkers on the
> foundations of physics, has championed remarkably similar
> views. "Observer participancy gives rise to information and
> information gives rise to physics," he says.
Taken from New Scientist, here :
http://www.newscientist.com/ns/19990130/iisthelaw.html
and there's some more that might apply, here :
http://www.conscious-machine.com/meta.html
Chris.
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~chrislees/tao.index.html
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