¶ Individuality & Degrees of Freedom (3)
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Individuality & Degrees of Freedom:
"We regard each individual as the special case, but conscious as the generalization. Like the bumper sticker, “The Real World is a Special Case.” Reality is special case. You and I are sitting here and no one else can be sitting right where we are. This is the kind of reality that the newspapers miss: they write about reality as if we were all the same realities, as if we were all the same things. If you and I are sitting here we couldn’t possibly be anywhere else.
“There are a lot of different realities. That is the difference between reality and generalization. There is only one generalization. The only reason the radio works is because it has no interference. The game of Universe can be played on any one of the fantastically large number of the quadrillions of quadrillions of frequencies; the game can be played any way just so long as there is no other interference on the frequency you are using, so long as there are no two pieces on the same square.”
