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Commentary 7 (to C2 by Müller)

( BUILDING REALITY )
by Greg Nixon
24 September 2003, posted 7 October 2003

Quote from C2 by Müller

"The universe is our process and creation insofar as we structure it inside the unstructured and undivided ongoing mind-and-nature experience with which we are confronted."

Nixon :

But what is "our" & who are "we" ?

Müller :

"We is everybody"

GN expands the question:

Everybody as in the human species ? No doubt we are participant in the ongoing unfolding of our experienced world (despite a degree of variance amongst the cultures & individuals of said species). But then aren't there other worlds of experience, basically unknown to us (except by imaginative projection) ? Surely naked mole rats have an experienced world unique to naked mole rats. Yet even naked mole rats & humans can interact thus temporarily share a world, which implies one of two things :

Either there is some sort of already-created "out there" from & within which experienced worlds are created, according to the nature of the experiencing (a combination of the traits of the experiencer & that which is experienced).

Or, there is a much larger -- one may daresay all-encompassing -- universal dynamism at the core of creation that finds itself expressed in a megaplicity of experienced worlds (& a megaplicity of forms or even levels of experience).

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Greg Nixon