--- On Tue, 10/21/08, Joseph Polanik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What Does the Knowing Brain Know?
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Apparently nothing much.
Georges.
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>
> 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
>
>
> --
> Philosophy is, after all, done ultimately in the first
> person for the
> first person. --- H-N Castaneda
>
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