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Old Apr 9, 2008, 07:39 pm   #29 (permalink) (top)
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Potentiality, possibility, probability, and capacity reflect more of the nature of the human mind than the nature of reality in general -- in reality, there is only actuality.

Potentiality is a ... well, I don't want to say illusion because of my dislike of the term, but for the purposes of this thead, there you go -- because of our creativity, we are able to imagine on basis of the available information that we can do many things, but even this analysis of the possibilities is part of a systematic way of behaving. Ultimately, we are bound to pick just one of the possibilities, and like the activity of analyzing the possibilities itself, this depends on the circumstances pertaining to the deciding agent.
Well said!
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