On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 18:03:32 -0400, Amadeus Schmidt <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Well, the stone inside or outside the brain is the Zen-typical movement from >one frame into annother meta-frame. >Literally. The Stone moves into the mind. >But where is *this*- the mind. That's the trick. > >Lovely Zen paradoxes. > Just as 'the stone' is a model (mental technology) so is 'the mind'. 'Stone', 'mind', 'you', 'me' are mental models, but are not real. What is there really for us? Pure sensory data -- signals (oops! -- another abstraction!) What we do with it after that is modeling. Philip Thrift http://www.paleofitness.com