[Xmca-l] Re: Fate, Luck and Chance

[Andy Blunden]

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*Andy Blunden*
http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/


Lplarry wrote:
> Andy
> Therefore are space and time finite categories.
> Both consciousness and products of consciousness.
> The relation of space and time to *matter* 
> As the *base* is then open to inquiry.
> Larry
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> From: Andy Blunden <mailto:ablunden@mira.net>
> Sent: ‎2014-‎11-‎23 7:45 PM
> To: eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity <mailto:xmca-l@mailman.ucsd.edu>
> Subject: [Xmca-l] Re: Fate, Luck and Chance
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> Annalisa,
> It is impossible to take this conversation forward unless we establish
> some shared concepts and word meanings.
> "Material" is a word which can be used very loosely and applied to
> almost anything. But "matter" (in this discourse) is a philosophical
> category denoting all that which exists outside of and independently of
> consciousness but is knowable through human activity. Any finite
> category (such as word, cosmos, thing, movement, ...) in some sense both
> outside of consciousness and a product of consciousness, but "matter" is
> the base category which distinguishes illusions, fantasies, phantoms,
> ideas, etc., from what exists.
>
> You can mean anything you like by any of these words, but if the people
> you are talking to mean something else by the same words, then confusion
> can follow. We need to be on the same page.
>
> All the basic concepts are explained, with references for follow-up
> reading here: http://wiki.lchc.ucsd.edu/CHAT/WebHome
>
>
> Andy
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> *Andy Blunden*
> http://home.pacific.net.au/~andy/
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