[MD] Speed of Lighting, Roar of thunder...

[David Thomas]

On 8/22/10 4:15 AM, "MarshaV" <valkyr at att.net> wrote:

> Marsha:
> Patterns existing "outside our concepts of them" seems to make it a SOM issue,
> but I could be wrong.  Do patterns exist as independent entities?

Depends. If you want to looked at them universally then, no. All patterns
are parts of smaller and larger patterns such that ultimately all is one.

But this is not very helpful idea when trying to make breakfast. The belief
that supping on the concept of a egg is the same as dining on "independent
entity" egg in your refrigerator, will eventually will lead to the demise of
the pattern Marsha.  Pragmatism would say, "Yes, that it is reasonable thing
to believe their really is an "outside world out there" until a better way
of understanding that experience comes along." But there hasn't been one to
date. It leaves open the possibility that all is illusion, but suggests it
would not be prudent to act as if this is true.

Dave