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   From: tanghuyen@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/11/2016 4:49 AM, Wilson wrote:   
      
   > On 10/10/2016 11:24 PM, Nobody in Particular wrote:   
      
   >> Thus i have heard:   
   >> The frame-rate of the universe is one Planck time, 10^-43 seconds,   
   >> the pixel-size of the universe is one Planck length, 1.6 x 10^-35 m or   
   >> about 10^-20 times the size of a proton.   
      
   > If I recall correctly, that's approximately the point where one can   
   > start to see the frothiness of the universe as things come into and go   
   > out of existence, for lack of a better word.   
      
   Ha, "the frothiness of the universe as things come   
   into and go out of existence". Wilson my sweet and   
   loving son, thank you for that, it clicks with what I   
   say about the Stoic God: he squirts into us and we   
   ooze into existence in the same movement, and at   
   the end of each world-cycle he burns up everything   
   (including us) (another version of the same story says   
   that he turns everything into water, in a   
   world-cataclysm) to return into himself, a single   
   substance, to meditate with himself, alone, without   
   any second/adjunct/witness.   
      
   Seneca says in his Letter 9: “What kind of life will a   
   wise man have if he is abandoned by his friends and   
   hurled into prison or isolated in some foreign country   
   or detained on a long voyage or cast out onto a   
   desert shore? It will be like the life of Zeus, at the   
   time when the world is dissolved and the gods have   
   been blended together into one, when nature comes   
   to a stop for a while; he reposes in himself given over   
   to his thoughts. The wise man’s behaviour is just like   
   this: he retires into himself, and is with himself.” A. A.   
   Long and D. N. Sedley, The Hellenistic Philosophers,   
   Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987, I, 277,   
   item O, from Seneca, Letter 9.16 (SVF 2. 1065), text   
   on II, 276: “qualis tamen futura est vita sapientis, si   
   sine amicis relinquatur in custodiam coniectus vel in   
   aliqua gente aliena destitutus vel in navigatione longa   
   retentus aut in desertum litus eiectus? qualis est   
   Iovis, cum resoluto mundo et dis in unum confusis   
   paulisper cessante natura acquiescit sibi   
   cogitationibus suis traditus. tale quiddam sapiens   
   facit: in se reconditur, secum est.”   
      
   Tang Huyen   
      
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