"I" the mirror

From: Colin Hales <colin.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 11:59:01 +1100

Dear Everythingers,

This is a query placed as a result of failing to succeed to find answers
when googling my way around the place for a very long time (2 years). I am
about to conclude that a) no such discourse exists or b) that it is
disguised in a form of physics/math that my searching has not uncovered.

I know it is off-topic but I thought I'd run it by you folk as the most
eclectic agglomerators of knowledge in the multiverse. Off-list replies
welcome - keep the noise down and all that.


Q. What branch of science has ascertained the role and status of the image
in a first person perspective of a mirror? .ie. 'be' the mirror.


The answer 'there ain't one as far as I know' is as acceptable as anything.
I just need to know what's out there. If there's nothing there then I take
it I'm in that breezy lonely spot past the front lines of epistemology and
trundle on assuming (a) above.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers,

Colin Hales
Received on Mon Jan 20 2003 - 20:06:29 PST