Re: The Lunar Paradox

"Ray Gardener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > Hi Ray - I think I would agree that the illusion is an argument
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> > cognition if not perhaps for free will. But would you set the
> line
> > length in your newsreader to some value like 60 or so to avoid
> having
> > to pan and scan your posts?
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> Your reader doesn't auto wordwrap? Eww.... but I've changed the
> setting here anyway.

That ain't good OO practice!  To make the transmitter know about the reciver
such that it alters content appropriately.

Hehe.

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> The illusion could also be simply that, by having evolved on a
> spherical world, things on the ground that are visible must be in
> some local neighbourhood of the viewer and are subconsciously
> afforded "near" status. Distance categorization would take high
> priority in organisms' minds because it is generally best to sort
> survival threats based on proximity. So even if something is only
> visually near the ground, like a low Moon, we can't help the
> feeling that it is "near". It's not so much that the Moon looks
> bigger, it that's we feel it is closer to us.
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> Ray
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