[MD] FW: Quantum weirdness

[Hamilton Priday]

Case --


 [Ham]:
> You are arguing from a temporal perspective in which Creation is viewed as
> an event that occurred 14 billion years ago.  I do not regard Creation as 
> an
> "event" in time, but a constant principle of the absolute source.  Think 
> in
> terms of Pirsig's DQ.  Was Quality also expended at the moment of the Big
> Bang?  It doesn't make sense.

[Case]:
> If you choose to ignore physics I supposed you can make up whatever you
> like. I do know from past reading that you have at best a tenuous grasp of
> the meaning of space/time. But in my tireless effort to bring you up to
> speed here is a little presentation the meaning of dimensionality that 
> might
> help.

You may think you're bringing me up to speed with this rock guitarist's 
self-promotion, but I fail to see the point of a 10th dimension.  So far as 
I know, Einstein's universe consisted of four dimensions: three spatial and 
one temporal.  What exactly are the other six?

Dimensionality is an intellectual scrabble game to explain phenomena we 
can't otherwise understand.  The mode of human perception is 
spatio-temporal.  It relates to the four-dimensional world of finite 
experience.  The world as finitely experienced is an intellectual construct, 
as Micah and I have been arguing for some time.  To conclude that ultimate 
reality is limited to such a finite scheme is to reject the value of 
metaphysical theory and bind yourself to an SOM construct.  This is what I 
thought Mr. Pirsig was trying to escape.

Creation is not an act in time, like winding up a watch mechanism and then 
letting it run out.  It is constant and applies to every moment of cognizant 
experience.  The universal template is the appearance that is sustained 
throughout the life of every cognizant being by the awareness/otherness 
dichotomy.  The only way to transcend the appearance of finitude is to end 
your being-aware and eliminate the dichotomy.

Or, of course, you can make up songs about the 10th dimension and pretend 
you know something that I don't.

Ham