[MD] Seriously, Dan

[Krimel]

> Dan:
> This is all true. So. Do you believe that reality as you understand it
> to be is something solid and separate from you as an individual?
>
> [Krimel]
> "Reality as I understand it" is a set of concepts I have acquire over the
> course of a lifetime of "being in the world". It _is_ me and I _am_ it. My
> conceptual self changes movement to moment as I assimilate new experience 
> or accommodate my conceptual self to account for new experiences.
>
> Do you really believe there is nothing separate from yourself?

[Dan]
If the world is you and you are it, then why the question?

[Krimel]
I think you misunderstand. "Reality as I understand it" is almost certainly
not all there is to "Reality". My understanding arises from the interaction
of my social and biological patterns with a whole bunch of inorganic
patterns that at least for the most part seem utterly apart from me. I think
James' distinction between precepts and concepts sums it up nicely. I
recommend to your attention his chapters on the matter in Some Problems of
Philosophy, especially Chapters 4, 5 and 6.

I repeat my question because I am curious: Do you really believe there is
nothing separate from yourself?

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