On Sat, 29 Apr 2000 05:53:45 +0000, you wrote:
>To Ian, Geoff et al.....
>
>Ian - How do "state" and "thing" differ? Only in that one is
>generally viewed as being non-physical and the other is viewed as
>being physical? Whether you call it a thing or a state doesn't change
>that i"it" doesn't exist (in my opinion - and I'm open to having my
>opinion altered - I just need a more convincing argument than I've
>read here) Agaoin - I'm not saying that there aren't people who act
>in a manner that we have chosen to describe as "insane" - just that
>"sanity/insanity" are just terms that we use and in doing so, we put
>the person we labelled into a box.
The state is part of a continuum of function. My behavior has a range
of values. At some points I'm functioning well at others I'm not
functioning so well. At certain points along this I can be deemed to
be insane.
Were I to take large amounts of LSD I could achieve a similar state to
one of the more debilitating mental illnesses. Would you say that the
state of being affected by LSD doesn't exist?
regards,
Ian
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