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Stapledon, Olaf - Odd John - On atoms
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Olaf Stapledon – Odd John
I laughed and said I liked his parable.
‘Parable be damned’ he said ‘It’s only a parable in the sense that the protons and electrons themselves are merely fictitious characters in a parable. They’re not really independent entities at all, but determinations within a system – the cosmos. And they’re not really just physical, but determinations within a psycho physical system.
Of course if you take .. physics as God’s truth and not as an abstraction from a more profound truth, the whole ideas sounds crazy. But I thought it worth looking into and I find it works.