Is it perhaps, rather than "intelligence" the memory of experience at  
play here,
not necessarily our own, but a "collective memory?

Merrie
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A closed mouth gathers no feet.

On 22-Oct-08, at 5:23 AM, archytas wrote:

>
> This no knowing does not help much in understanding why I do not allow
> my grandson to play in traffic.
> Brains don't know, people do - yet there seems to be 'intelligence' at
> work in all information exchange, or possibly a world of information
> as well as matter.  Organisations (organic and otherwise) 'know' in
> some senses.  I'd just question whether the question gives us
> important leads.
> On 21 Oct, 13:37, adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>   The "knowing brain" does not know anything, it's a fiction.
>> Reality per se does not need or use a map or mapping code, though  
>> we do in 3rd person mode.
>> Reality exists before man and after man, as nicely themed by  
>> Stapledon. Consciousness, soul,
>> sentience or whatever the blah word chosen is the bottom line. Chop  
>> that out and there is no
>> knowing. And, yes 'know' is one of the less felicitous words  
>> around. Castaneda uses tonal and
>> nagual, which is a traditional dualism when respective to real and  
>> illusion there is no dualism
>> possible.
>>
>> adrian
>>
>>
>>
>>

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