Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 13:25:05 +1100
From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net>
Subject: No. 18


Mark wrote:

>No. 18: "Do we, identifiable individuals, x, y, speak phrases or make
>silences, in the sense that we would be their authors? Or is it that
>phrases or silences take place (happen, come to pass), presenting
>universes in which individuals x, y, you, me are situated as the
:>addressors of these phrases or silences?"

"I: is a first-person judgment.

 "We" is a first person judgement of second-person inclusion.

Judgements are authored even when expressed only to one's self.  .

In the latter instance, the first-person author is both addressor and
addressee, although a second-person presence would constitue a "we", and
witness a "silence",
and mere "presence" of another person is a phrase in  body-language

Judgements are communicated to an addressee via spoken or written word(s),
other sound, or body language.

Sit at TV or computer screen and words and other images appear; sounds
appear silences are noted.

Authors may or may not appear, and may or may not match the words on the
screen.

We tend to disbelieve words, or images without authors, or "rationalize"
them as dreams, hallucinations,  as voices of  God or ghosts etc.

Once, after a shipwreck, millions of grains of wheat came ashore creating
intriguing patterns on smooth sand.  Could they have formed letters, words
and phrases, and if so, who would have been the addressor?

Phrases, like artifacts have meaning to developed, cognizant human minds,
yet phrases precede new humans and constitute the an element of the means of
survival.

So do food, air and water.  The "it is happening" is an awaiting, the
"happening" is occurence, appearance, discovery.  The need becomes
motivation, exploration, a seeking, hunting, gathering.