[MD] Chance

[Ham Priday]

Marsha --


> Ham,
> Aren't you talking about space, which is where appearances do not exist.

I don't see it this way.  Appearances are experienced dimensionally (because 
of man's space/time mode of awareness), and we call the whole procress 
"existence".  That events are experienced in sequence and distributed in 
space is a function of organic sensibility.  We intellectualize this 
perspective as the knowledge of our reality.  But even the physicists have 
determined that the critical density (mass) of interstellar space equates to 
less than one hydrogen atom per cubic meter, which means that physical 
existence is almost entirely a void -- empty space, nothingness.

Objectivists have concluded that the "stuff" of reality is bundles of energy 
spread out into infinite space.  Most here share that conclusion, because 
they can't accept the view that they live in a "virtual reality".  They 
don't understand that all experience is interpreted Value, specifically the 
value of Essence from which we are all negated.  Nor do they understand that 
the "universality" of knowledge manifests our individuated relationship to 
the primary source.  Indeed, the reality that we call "existence" is about 
as far from ultimate reality as finite  experience can ever be.

I still cringe when I hear people boast that "they live in the REAL world" 
as opposed, of course, to those of us who hold out for a more substantive 
reality.  What about you, Marsha?

Best regards,
Ham