28th June 2004, 4:30 PM
No, shadows and darkness ARE the same thing. Shadows are NOT a perversion of light, they are just the absence. All you did when shining the flashlight is create areas that are now full of light. The "shadow" is an area that is still exactly the same as it was before, well maybe a little more lit up because a little light likely made it back there, but it's the exact same condition. Calling that a shadow is merely human perception, it's not an actual THING like Peter Pan's shadow or Shadow Link, it's just an area that wasn't illumitated, and saying it was formed by the light is just like saying a chicken was FORMED by the clouds.
Allow me to give you an example of this sort of thing in action. Long ago, looking at Mars, some people had for a time thought that the various paths on there were canals, and were obvious signs of intelligence. They were only partly right. They WERE signs of intelligence, but the intelligence was on OUR side of the telescope.
Allow me to give you an example of this sort of thing in action. Long ago, looking at Mars, some people had for a time thought that the various paths on there were canals, and were obvious signs of intelligence. They were only partly right. They WERE signs of intelligence, but the intelligence was on OUR side of the telescope.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)