On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 09:40:59AM -0000, David Nyman wrote: > > On Jun 19, 5:09 am, Russell Standish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > David, I was unable to perceive a question in what you just wrote. I > > haven't a response, since (sadly) I was unable to understand what you > > were talking about. :( > > Really? I'm surprised, but words can indeed be very slippery in this > context. Oh, well. To condense: my argument is intended to pump the > intuition that a 'primitive' (or 'reduced') notion of 'sensing' (or > please substitute anything that carries the thrust of 'able to > locate', 'knows it's there', etc.) is already inescapably present in > the notion of 'interaction' between fundamental 'entities' in any > feasible model of reality. Else, how could we claim that they retain > any coherent sense of being 'in contact'?
Interaction is in terms of fields - electromagnetic for most of our everyday examples. The fields themselves are emergent effects from virtual boson exchange. Now how is this related to sensing exactly? (Other than sensing being a particular subclass of interaction) ... > implications. So my question is, do you think it has any merit, or is > simply wrong, indeterminate, or gibberish? And why? > If I have to pick an answer: gibberish. Sensing to me implies some form of agency at one end of the interaction. I don't attribute any sort of agency to the interaction between two hydrogen atoms making up a hydrogen molecule for instance. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- A/Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Mathematics UNSW SYDNEY 2052 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Australia http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" 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/everything-list?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
