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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2024 12:15:59 +0000
Organization: A little, after lunch
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On 08/12/2024 10:48, D wrote:
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> 
> On Sat, 7 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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>> On 07/12/2024 21:48, D wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, 7 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 07/12/2024 16:39, D wrote:
>>>>> So therefore, metaphysics doesn't really exist, except as thought 
>>>>> forms to make us feel better (if we need that), in which case it's 
>>>>> just a bunch of nice stories.
>>>>
>>>> Well you are starting to make clear a completely metaphysical 
>>>> position here.
>>>>
>>>> What do you mean by 'really exist' ?
>>>
>>> With not exist, I mean s an unprovable, ideal reality separate from 
>>> the material world. 
>>
>> Ok like the place where 'natural laws' live?
> 
> There is no place where natural laws live, in fact, the laws we know is 
> just a process in our brains, describing (and predicting) events. They 
> don't live in any dimension. There is no proof of that.

Isn't 'in your brain' a dimension?
-- 
  “A leader is best When people barely know he exists. Of a good leader, 
who talks little,When his work is done, his aim fulfilled,They will say, 
“We did this ourselves.”

― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching