In loving memory of
Robert W. George

• March 26, 1963
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• August 29, 2011

罗杰.彭罗斯 谈唯物主义：“ what I am partly sniayg is that those words (materialist) are a bit out of date, because the contemporary understanding of material is very different now from the way it used to be. If we consider what matter really is, we now understand it as much more of a mathematical thing. When these categories materialist', idealist' etc. were first coined, people thought of matter as a much more defined thing, something which is there', and then you combine that with mysterious mind stuff which is floating around, which would be separate from it. But I think that matter itself is now much more of a mental substance; So before we have a deeper understanding of what is really going on, to talk about things in these terms is almost certainly limiting and inappropriate.”我所部份谈到的是，这些语汇（唯物主义的）有些过时了，因为当今对物质的理解已经与过去大不一样了。 如果来考虑物质到底是什么，我们现在知道，这不过是个数学玩意。如“唯物主义的、“唯心主义的”这类词语当初被造出时，人们把物质想成是一个确定的东西，一件在那里明摆着的东西，再把它与神奇飘忽的精神连接起来。但我现在认为，物质的本质是心灵的。 所以，在我们对真相有更深的了解之前，奢谈那些语汇几乎必然是局限的、不合适的。