FOM: Does it matter?

[NOROP@hum.aau.dk]

  Joseph Shoenfield wrote the 23 April 1998 11:27

>    When I was a youth, I was somewhat interested in the mind-matter
>problem; but it was finally settled for me by the immortal answer:
>never mind, it doesn't matter.    (Does anyone know the author of
>this remark?)

I think the remark has its origin a couple of centuries ago when the 
Cambridge Platonists made these remarks:
					What is matter? Never mind!
     What is mind? No matter!
                                                   	       Ove Petersen