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

Paul Mackin pmackin at clark.net
Fri Jun 25 10:59:50 CDT 1999


I meant Jill might mean, not P might mean. Sorry.

			P.

On Fri, 25 Jun 1999, Paul Mackin wrote:

> 
> 
> 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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