[MD] Experience, essentialism, physicalism

[Ham Priday]

David --


> Ham
>
> well then is there any difference between sensibility
> and an original 'quality experience'? In the beginning
> was the void, full of potential, and it felt something stir.

I'm not sure I know what an original 'quality experience' is -- some kind of
epiphany, perhaps?  -- but your quote appears to have been taken from the
2004 documentary "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" and it sounds like a mingling
of John 1:1 with Genesis 1:1.

I prefer this variation from Jack Black's "Cosmogeny":

"In the beginning there was VOID, who had two daughters; one (the smaller)
was that of BEING, named ERIS, and one (the larger) was of NON-BEING, named
ANERIS. (To this day, the fundamental truth that Aneris is the larger is
apparent to all who compare the great number of things that do not exist
with the comparatively small number of things that do exist.)"

It closes with an italicized footnote which 'voidists' like you and Scott
will probably like:

"And so it is that we, as men, do not exist until we do; and then it is that
we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and
so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence and that
nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a
very wild circus."   -- [http://everything2.com/index.pl?]

Given that a void is what does not exist and appearance is what does, the
ultimate source of existence is either nothingness or essence.  Which of
these sources makes more sense to you?

--Ham