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Journal: June 8, 2012
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Appearance and Reality                              Thought Process

Abstractions and their Fuzzy Boundaries: All ideas, thoughts, words are abstractions, generalizations, reductions, (as in reductionism) about things that don’t exist, except for word qualifiers such as "a", "the", "this" or "that". They refer to “classes” of things, not a particular thing. As classes, or sets, there are members and non-members (e.g. me and not me). Invariably each class will have boundaries that separate members from non-members. And invariably somethings will be classified by some people or at some times by the same person as a member and not e.g. tooth enamel; me or not me? gold filling; me or not me? electron, substance or field? meter; length of an iridium bar in Paris or length by my meter stick? Fuzzy, always fuzzy. Perfection implied by abstraction is not to be had because boundaries are never perfect, and no instance matches any other on scales along classification criteria.

We now know (or at least we know we can never know) there is no meaning other than our intentions; no magic; no “super” natural; no good; no evil. No right no wrong, no high nor low. We now know this, perhaps we always have, but choose magic instead. Just as some seem to prefer misery and hate to peace and acquiescence. So we hate the deniers of our magic and swim in a sea of misery of frustrated attempts to change to world to make it better. We do a thousand other things to make things better, but we still see the same world that still needs our “help”.

Oh but we could realize, it’s perfect as it is.