X-Message-Number: 10260 Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 17:07:45 -0700 From: Peter Merel <> Subject: Dancin' Timur Rozenfeld writes, >The underlying dance does not exist in reality, it is a concept held by >each partner in their minds. Each person holds a very similar concept of >the dance, and that is why it works. The only metaphysical existents are >the ground, the music, the people and the movements of each person. The dance does not exist, but the people do? My heart beats, my neurons fire, my corpuscles flow in an intricate dance of their own; when that dance is interrupted, where goes the underlying person? The dance does not exist, but the music does? When I take the notes of the tango and jumble them, even though I expend the same energy in sounding them, where goes the underlying music? The dance does not exist, but the movements of each person do? Then take these motions and rearrange their order; when the dancers collide where goes their underlying movement? The dance does not exist, but the ground does? Earthquakes are common; when the earth resumes its own dance where goes the underlying ground? Your metaphysical existents appear wholely dependent upon these dances you say do not exist. I suggest an alternative epistemology: the natural world and all its phenomena are grounded in dance; study dance, and these underlying existents will swiftly return to the imagination from which they spring. Peter Merel. Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=10260