Re: contention: theories are incompatible

From: Russell Standish <r.standish.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 14:47:00 +1100

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 10:00:04PM -0500, Stephen Paul King wrote:
> Hi James and Russell,
>
> Could a middle ground be found in the notion that "something" is a
> differentiated piece of Nothing, where Everything (1st person notion) and
> Nothing (3rd person notion) are one and the same?

Intriguing. Why do you say Everything is 1st person and Nothing is 3rd person?

> Violations of the notion
> of conservation only seem to obtain when we conflate the 1st and 3rd person
> viewpoints.
>

This seems likely.

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