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                               %ESSENTIALLY PRIVATE 730921

     There  are in each society conventions regarding what
actions  and  communications are  appropriate  in  public.
Similarly  there  are conventions regulating  actions  and
communications  within  groups of  close  friends.    Some
actions  and  communications  are regarded as  appropriate
only  when  one  is  isolated,  or  with a  most  intimate
associate.   Thus society attempts to define the practical
significance  of  privacy by maintaining a system of  good
rules.

     Social  conventions regarding privacy are attempts at
solving certain problems which existed in the past.   They
may  or  may  not contribute to the solution  of  the real
problems existing in the present.   Conventions which tend
to  reduce  communication---may  create more problems than
they solve; especially when they become particularly rigid
and enforced by taboo, and fragment the society.

     Some  societies have conventions which make it  taboo
to communicate  publicly   regarding   self's   states  of
consciousness; especially if the state of consciousness is
associated  with  drugs,  sexual  consciousness,   or  the
questioning of conventionally unexamined assumptions. Such
conventions  tend  to  inhibit  honest  dialogue,   mutual
awareness,   and  mutual understanding.   The  insensitive
violation  of the conventions is not likely to be helpful.
Yet creative ways may be found to resolve the dilemmas and
conflicts which the conventions were  designed to solve---
without  the   debilitating   effects  of  the maintaining
standards of good and evil.

     Even  if  and  when  such repressive  conventions are
transcended,  there  are still some  personal  experiences
which  remain  essentially  private.   It  is  not  social
conventions or personal choice which make them private. It
is  in  the nature of being human that they  are  private.
There can  be no  fully objective evidence  which  may  be
correlated in a unique way with such personal experiences.

     There  are  some  natural scientists who  maintain  a
faith  that  each  human  experience  may  ultimately   be
rationally reduced to equivalent objective evidence.  Such
rationalists  will find it difficult to accept and respect
any mutual understanding with non-scientists.

                         (c) 1999 by Paul A. Smith in
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