[FRIAM] A longer response to Dave's question

[Frank Wimberly]

It would constitute proof that Marcus exists if he were to admit that I was
correct in our years-ago argument when I said that gender defines an
equivalence relation on the set of people.

Frank
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Frank C. Wimberly, PhD
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Santa Fe, NM

On Sat, Feb 22, 2020, 11:32 AM Steven A Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> wrote:

> Nick -
>
> What I object to is the notion that such experiences in extremis are èin
> principleç more likely to be true than ordinary ones, or, further, that
> there is any way to confirm the implications of one experience except
> through further experiences.
>
> I believe that  *experiences en extremis *might well offer some
> *perspective* or qualitatively different "truth" than more mundane
> experiences.   I also believe that once one is habituated/tuned/primed for
> this kind of perspective, that it can be somewhat persistent.
>
> When I went from watching clouds form/transform/dissipate entirely naively
> to having a sense of the higher dimensionality of pressure, temperature,
> and humidity wherein the dynamics evolve  it felt rather transcendent.
> Now I can watch clouds evolve (especially via timelapse) in a very
> different way.
>
> A. Square had a similar experience after A. Square gave him a guided tour
> of the third dimension...
>
> ?
>
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