Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxr.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxr!lew From: lew@ihuxr.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.) Newsgroups: net.philosophy Subject: Profound reflections Message-ID: <884@ihuxr.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Feb-84 17:00:12 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxr.884 Posted: Sun Feb 5 17:00:12 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 04:35:38 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 11 I think that Ron Rizzo is taking his own confusion for evidence of the profundity of the question. In his dialogue with the Pseudotaylor, he mistakes the "front-back" reversal for rotation of a plane about an axis lying in the plane. The "front-back" reversal refers to the inversion of the axis perpendicular to the mirror. Of course, the image space is 3-D, not 2-D. For real profundity, how about this question that my son asked when he was four, while looking in the mirror: "Does that other Max have bones?" Lew Mammel, Jr. ihnp4!ihuxr!lew