What Does the Knowing Brain Know?
Michael Eldred wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:14:12 EDT:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>>>Hi Jud,Previously you said: *.... what cannot be known is that
>>>which does not exist to be known.* Standing alone, this statement
>>>infers that *known* is understood. But in your comments above you
>>>indicate that *knowledge* is really undefinable. This means that the
>>>quote I cite must be relativistically understood, in other words not
>>>understood in any absolute way. Could you make the same point without
>>>using *known?*
>>Hi Richard:What I meant by that is that *knowledge* (like *ideas*
>>or *memes*) does not exist - it is a reification of the existential
>>modes of a knowing brain
>ME: "knowing brain" That's a good one. The eliminative materialist has
>eliminated the/his mind, only to invoke the voodoo notion of a "knowing
>brain".
also eliminated is any awareness of the difference between truth and
error or between knowledge and opinion.
examining the brain state of someone during the middle ages who thought
that the sun revolved around the earth would reveal a brain in the
existential modality of 'knowing' something that is false.
Joe
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