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Just about everything on this web site has recently been reformatted into
a smaller font. This has been for the reason of making everything here
easier to read, providing you can see easily the smaller font size, because
most computer screens are getting larger, and the uniform smaller size
is better looking and allows for more of the material to be visible at
once. For some reason, I think being able to see more of something at once
while reading it makes it easier to absorb its details than seeing just
a paragraph or two at a time. It is also less distracting than having the
font size jump when switching from one page to another. Most of these pages
(books, articles, notes,
and college papers) were done over a period of many years so reformatting
them all to keep the same uniform look, paragraph width and font size,
was a major undertaking.
While reformatting the Relativism Books, I ended
up rereading the second one. Normally I like
to put a LOT of distance between how I think now and how I thought then,
and usually keep up dissing it all as mostly irrelevant, though those outlooks
took me from there to here. Nothing of which I have written before yet
still hesitantly stand by, have I thought as little of as the second one
of that those three first ones. The first and third I always maintained
were better written, and were more or less about something concrete, dealing
with the world and experience. The second one, if it could be said to be
about anything, deals mostly with abstracts about consciousness, truth,
experience, and feelings. In a way, I think that Deconstructing
the Universe has that same division within it. The first original 8
sections were about the physical universe, the more concrete aspects of
what it means to be. Yet the additional 8 and the completely different
form it took later after the additions were attempted to be integrated
into a concise whole, via the Key Ideas section,
made it into something else, completely different and much more like what
had been done or attempted long before in what ended up being called Relativism
II. Not that the term “relativism” really applies to that work, and
I said as much in the Preface how it just ended up being called that
without much good reason, but it deals a lot with the same themes as Deconstructing
the Universe's additions, especially in terms of consciousness. I was also
surprised how well written it was because I still do not think that I was
that good of a writer then. It attempted to deal with big questions (and
it did a pretty good job of setting up or defining questions which can
never really be answered other than subjectively); what is consciousness,
is truth really subjective to perception, all themes I returned to later
in the most recent notes, with Parmenides time balls and alternate timelines,.
If what does not occur which could have, if there is more than one way
that the present might have existed or more than one way the future could
go, truth becomes even more subjective and dealing with that subjectivity
is important when considering how you think and perceive things philosophically
speaking.
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