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Mark Dykeman's avatar

Strawberry Fields is the intersection of four realities.

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Felix Kammerlander's avatar

Do you mean this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strawberry_Fields_(memorial) ?

Anyhow, I don't understand. Please elaborate.

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Mark Dykeman's avatar

Hi Felix, was interrupted by a temporary power outage. Here's what I meant concerning Strawberry Fields as the nexus of realities:

Objective: the actual Strawberry Fields site in Liverpool

Subjective: Lennon's memories of Strawberry Fields (at least as a concept) as a part of his childhood

Intersubjective reality: how some people consider Strawberry Fields Forever (the song) to be perfect pop music while others will undoubtedly hate it and others have some other opinion

Potential reality: the unformed opinions of people who've not yet experienced any version (objective, subjective, intersubjective) of Strawberry Fields

You could apply this to just about any cultural artifact, really.

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Felix Kammerlander's avatar

Oh that's perfect, thank you for this!

The important point about this concept to me is in being able to distinguish which reality people talk about and therefore choose the accurate level of resolution for the ensuing discussion.

This was the most haphazard essay of mine so far and I will surely rewrite it at some point in time, but I am glad that the points still came across! Thank you Mark.

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Mark Dykeman's avatar

Cheers Felix.

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