Re: Creativity

Neil W Rickert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lester Zick) writes:
> >                                           But it does mean that every
> >property known of the moon and everything else lies in the brain/mind
> >complex because that is where perception and cognition occur in terms
> >of differences and differences are the reason perception and cognition
> >occur inside the brain/mind complex and not anywhere outside.
> 
> You wrote of a materiality of the moon.  That's a property.  If
> every property has to lie in the brain/mind complex, then the
> materiality of the moon would have to lie in the brain/mind
> complex.  Now where does that leave the moon itself?
> 

The properties of the moon lie in the mind of the moon.

Sorry, couldn't resist LOL.

> We do send up unmanned rockets to measure properties of the moon
> and of other things.  How could that possibly work if properties
> lie in the brain/mind complex?

Maybe Lester refers to something else by "property"? I hope not!

If the material composition of moon is not a property of moon, what is
it for God's sake? Its use as a metaphor in literature? That doesn't
make sense!

Lester must be thoroughly confused! Else, I think he should clarify
his position...