There's no 'seeming" about it, sentience does not inhere to the brain. And you don't comment on the point I made, only what is an article of faith for you; funny that.
adrian 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
