Re: virus: alternate realities

Twirlip of Greymist (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Sat, 4 May 1996 14:45:50 -0700 (PDT)


/definition of reality changes. Therefore to posit an "other reality" is
/ok for entertainment, religion, and science fiction, but beyond that it
/isn't very good for much else until there is some physical evidence to
/support it.

I thought the original question was postulating something like organized
neutrino-like matter -- material and present, but barely interacting
with us. I don't think this would raise fundamental philosophical
questions, but it would still be damn important.

Merry part,
-xx- Damien R. Sullivan X-) <*> http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~phoenix

For no cage was ever made to hold a creature such as he,
No chain was ever forged to bind the wind.
And when I think upon all the scars he left on me,
The cruelest are the ones I bear within.