No one can say that the Hershey bar tastes the same as it decades ago. However, assuming records are available everything having to do with the manufacture of the product at some time (anytime since its first production?) in the past including the procurement of ingredients, etc., can be compared with the data of today and from that one can say if in fact the candy is the same now as then. But how one tastes it or remembers it is a creative reconstruction, all subjective. In other words we have one supposedly inert and unchanged fixed object, candy bar, and one variable object, taster, that judges the candy. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: Michael Brady <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, October 13, 2010 4:22:57 PM Subject: Re: challenge On Oct 13, 2010, at 5:00 PM, [email protected] wrote: > This is in part because your attention ranges over various parts of that notional wave. And the wave is moving, unless you're thinking of a photograph of a wave. Here's another puzzle: How can anyone prove a claim that a Hershey bar (or any other food) tastes just like it did when you were a child? Stored food changes over time, regardless of the storage process. The Hershey bar tastes just like *you remember it tasted* when you were a child. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
