Comments on: Do Fruit Flies Have Freewill? Do Humans? http://theheavystuff.com/?p=26 Thoughts About Phenomenology and High Strangeness Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:09:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: mjs http://theheavystuff.com/?p=26#comment-19 mjs Sun, 01 Jul 2007 09:01:47 +0000 http://theheavystuff.com/?p=26#comment-19 Joseph Campbell spent some time describing the Hindu idea of "the Net of Gems" wherein each gem reflected the others (an idea of representing the ineffable that was apparently of some comfort to Schopenhauer). When we attempt to dissect the manifested world it vanishes again and again--we put it back together when the pieces are of such a size that they'll behave, but we don't have as much luck with microphysics. No dicing the veil. +++ Joseph Campbell spent some time describing the Hindu idea of “the Net of Gems” wherein each gem reflected the others (an idea of representing the ineffable that was apparently of some comfort to Schopenhauer). When we attempt to dissect the manifested world it vanishes again and again–we put it back together when the pieces are of such a size that they’ll behave, but we don’t have as much luck with microphysics. No dicing the veil.

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