Re(1): Selves living on??

I thought you made some good points here, Keith. I thought there were a lot of thought-provoking points and questions in the newsletter as well.

One of my favorite parts was at the end:

"We seem to believe that our experience should inform our theories rather than our theories informing our experience. In fact, this goes back to what we were saying of Pepper’s claim in which common sense is seen as the ore from which all refined knowledge is mined. To some degree, our theories can take on lives of their own and interpret the everyday world, particularly when do not realize that our personal canons consist at least partially of the theoretical impartations of others taught us as though certain truth. My generation may discuss matters theoretically; my son’s generation may inherit our discussions as gospel truth."

There is much to think about here. And after all, that is what God gave us our minds for, to think.

I particularly liked your quotation, "For we know that if this hard drive of our life fails, there is a backup in the heavens -- not another drive that will fail again but an indelible and secure memory that is forever able to imprint the information that is "us" into new media"

Very clever transliteration from one medium (ancient text) to new medium (common knowledge in current use). Cool.