[MD] Daodejing

[David M]

Hi Platt

Try exchanging money as a social action, is this two indivduals
exchanging only paper? I suggest not.

David M

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Subject: Re: [MD] Daodejing


> Quoting Heather Perella <spiritualadirondack at yahoo.com>:
>
>>
>>      [Platt]
>> > I've seen photos of DNA and electron traces.
>>
>>      This is what your mind says.  This is what your
>> current knowledge says.  This is what your cultural
>> knowledge says.  They could be just pretty colors to
>> somebody else.  Or just strings, etc...
>
> True enough. You gotta know the code.
>
>>      [Platt]
>> > All you are saying is symbols don't mean anything
>> > unless one understands
>> > the code. I agree. Or, have I missed the point?
>>
>>      What code?  What symbols?
>
> The English language for one. The symbols of DNA and electron traces for 
> another.
>
>>      What I'm saying is:  What's true?  What label is
>> correct?
>
> Well, if you want to discuss "What is truth?" you open up a whole new
> ballgame, but I think we've been around that barn before.
>
>
>> Changes, nothing permanent, fill in the
>> blank, etc...  That's what I'm saying.  We could agree
>> upon something, but since you label 'things' in
>> pictures quarks, but don't see hugs or handshakes,
>> then our discussion is just muing, changing, filling
>> in a blank with our knowing, and since I was doing
>> this and you were doing this, now what I'm saying is
>> no all-true principle will join this gap, so, what
>> we're experiencing now is just fill in the blank.  The
>> blank is what is true, such as What is quality?  A
>> blank question since it involves a blank answer.
>
> Oh I see hugs and handshakes, but a picture of either one isn't a picture
> of society. It's a picture of two individuals touching one another.
>
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