On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 02:00:30PM -0700, John M wrote: > I salute Lee's new subject designation. > > I believe if we are up to identifying concepts with > common sense content as well, we should not restrict > ourselves into the model-distinctions of (any) physics > but generalize the meanings beyond such restrictions. > Of course: I am no physicist. My apologies. > > To Russel's 4 coordinates of (any?) event: how come > the occurrence (event!) of a 'good idea' in my mind - > (mind: not a thing, not a place, not time-restricted) > should have t,x,y,z coordinates? > > Naively yours > > John Mikes >
I would say that the event occurs in your brain (the neural correlate
of whatever is going on in your mind). Whatever is going on in your
mind is something else - an "observation" perhaps.
I'm only pointing to my understanding of these terms - I'm willing to
change terminology if its useful to do so.
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