GRGR(4) 83.16 you must halt for him and 86.25 following from

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Fri Jun 25 10:49:34 CDT 1999



On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Jill Adams wrote:

> When Pointsman is trying to consider what is it that provides stimulus from
> a sequence in reverse, it provides another example (to me!) of several
> mix-ups of the observation or scrutiny of the coming or going of things. 
> 
> "But if it's in the air, right here, right now, then the rockets follow
> from it, 100% of the time. No exceptions. When we find it, we'll have shown
> again the stone determinacy of everything, of every soul"
> 
> To me it doesn't make sense (what's new this always happens when I read
> GR!) It seems like it should be the rockets follow towards it, not from it.


Do the rockets follow FROM it in the sense of simple causality (if
causality is ever simple)  but TOWARDS it in the sense of being attracted
to it. P might mean the rockets are sexatropic. 

On the other hand the previous paragraph says the stimulus must be the
rocket. Of course this is all happening in the p-world of reversals.

						P.






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