Re: Physics and Metaphysics - systems and environment

[Dan Fiscus <***>]

Tim, JohnM,

I'm butting in here...hope OK...

Tim Gwinn wrote:


> I feel that attempts to imagine that one can consider oneself (for
> lack of a better word) unified into an undifferentiated whole, yet
> also maintain or assert some reference to self ("personal",  "1st
> person", "direct access", etc.) is to equivocate on this dualism.


Is to equivocate - voice equally? -  perhaps to suggest that
the self-world relation is *complex*, in terms of requiring
two or more models, descriptions or representations, for
which we might use three like 1) differentiated, separate,
apart, fractionable, 2) undifferentiated, unified, whole,
unfractionable 3) neither/both 1 or/and 2, apart and/or
whole. The choice of model(s) then might be determined by
context, as in functional purpose or task at hand.

??

This is how "I" see it...or should "I" say how "we" see it?
:-)

Dan