I have to write this down quickly. It is sort of like with a particularly crazy dream... it is vivid when you first wake up, but if you don't think about it, if you don't analyze it, you will forget it very quickly. So that's why I have to write this down now.
I'm not sure if I'm even interpreting some of this Aristotle stuff right, but even if my interpretations are wrong they are interesting and thought-provoking. What I think he's saying, what I'm understanding anyway, is this:
If I were to get eaten by a veloci raptor at this moment (something I am always on the alert for), if it were to pluck me off my computer chair and start chewing me up up and digesting me, something very ineteresting might happen. See, Aristotle's going on about how when something is built or destroyed artificially (which has something to do with purpose that I don't totally understand) some change takes place, but something always remains the same. Like... if you build a chair out of wood, a change has taken place in the wood in size or location or whatever, but it is still wood. But when I get eating, nothing is maintained... my matter changes, rather abruptly, into veloci-raptor matter. There is no Lindsay matter maintained. And I think what Aristotle is saying is that there is an instant, as my matter is changing, that I theoretically cease to exist. If all things in existance have the potential to become something (wood into chair), then that is a definition of existance... but when I am changing into veloci raptor, i have, for a moment, no form, meaning i have the potential to become anything... like air can't become a chair, but a bit of half-digested Lindsay could become dog, fox, bear, or veloci raptor... my location soon plays a very important part, but for a moment my infinite potential is what matters... and if I have infinite potential and have no form, then I am nothing.
Interesting idea...
(and I am rather frightened of veloci raptors)
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