MDDM  ch.67: "Yet, does it live" (657.13)
    Doug Millison 
    millison at online-journalist.com
       
    Sun Aug  4 22:59:31 CDT 2002
    
    
  
Analog/digital -- keep the interpretation within the materialist
perspective, why not?  The text also lifts up  -- specifically in this
passage --  the non-materialist Native American worldview and distinguishes
it  from the scientific/materialst Enlightenment worldview within which
Mason operates. Both/and, not either/or.
At 11:29 PM -0400 8/4/02, Bandwraith at aol.com wrote:
>I think that section ("Where is your Spirit Village?" 651) pretty
>clearly signifies the western analog/digital duality which will finally
>manifest itself as the infamous 'collapse of the wave function'
>"resolution" provided by quantum mechanics, in century XX. I.e.,
>Mason's digital zenith pointing versus Dixon's more non-local
>analog inclusiveness of the here, there and everywhere, are both
>represented in answer to the native's query. [...]
>
    
    
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