Is it perhaps, rather than "intelligence" the memory of experience at play here, not necessarily our own, but a "collective memory?
Merrie ---------------------- 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 >> >> >> >> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
