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"It's the trick used by Descartes to distinguish between hallucinated
reality and our real one: what one might focus on as non non-significant
(and today we
are also using computers for this purpose) is that which would still
exist in our perception if everything that matters were no longer there.
One example is
the history of the idea of the Greek Hades. In Hades, everything is
almost like around here, i.e., the laws of nature are all the same.
There is only a small
thing missing, it being a shadow world: there is no blood, none of the
red fluid that makes sensations so sensational. What remains are the
shadow-like
entities called relations.
But if we have the notion that the world can be seized by the steel
springs of these relations, and if it is trus that this notion is false,
i.e., that the world is
inconsistent, then there are reasons to be dissatisfied with reality". Otto E. Rössler, endophysicist, in a paper presented on the "Imagination" symposium at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, 1994 |