Originally Posted By: Blacknad
but how clever the illusion that I am a discreet entity when it would appear that I am really just a bundle of disparate chemical reactions. I have a problem with materialistic reductionism.

Inasmuch as the chemical reactions cannot be truly 'disparate' - all things being interconnected - there can be said to be only one discrete entity, i.e. the cosmos, with all it's dimensions, multiverses, energies and consciousness, subjective experiences and whatever. To wax artistic, it may turn out that music is being played on your (M)Strings as part of the one symphony of all existence.

OK. I built it. You demolish it.


"Time is what prevents everything from happening at once" - John Wheeler