X-Message-Number: 21668 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 22:51:43 -0700 From: Mike Perry <> Subject: Skastowe, Symbolic Worlds Replying to Thomas Donaldson, #21659: >For Mike Perry: >Send me $15 US and I will send you a copy of TALES OF SKASTOWE. Done, thanks--I do look forward to reading this. >As for your other arguments, the basic problem with a symbolic >world is that we made the symbols and as symbols they were >arbitrary. We interpret them, IF we wish to, as another world, >but they do not become any more real because of our interpretation >of them. If the "symbolic world" involves, for instance, a-life in a computer, you can say it is something real in any case. A part of the real world with real events of a certain sort. A world unto itself, whether we choose to interpret it so or not. Mike Perry Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=21668