On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Constantine Pseudonymous <bsor...@gmail.com> wrote: > Rex, I think your onto something here.... let me add a little > critique: > "1. Explanation is subordinate to description. > > 2. Description is subordinate to observation. > > 3. Observation is subordinate to experience. > > 4. And now we want to close the circle by explaining experience." > > you distinguish between observation and experience? nonsense.
I’m using “observation” as the term for particular instances or aspects of experience. So, no, I don’t actually distinguish between observation and experience in any significant way. > "However, our explanation of experience can only be justified by > appeal to experience - plus reason." > > Before jumping to explanation of experience you might want to hang out > at the problem of description of experience.... which is an element of > experience itself, or in so far as it is possible, a tautology. Does > any such description of experience exist? I can describe my experience to you in terms of fundamental concepts which I possess - but unless you have access to those same concepts, then my description won’t make any sense to you. > FURTHERMORE > > you assume there is in existence any such explanation of experience or > existence. > > show me one explanation of experience. even if it existed it would be > a mere feature of experience. I don’t assume that there is any sort of "ultimate" explanation for experience. In fact, I assume that there is not. > Do you believe in a objective world or totality? Do you believe in an > objective experience of experience-description? Do you believe in a > objective reality, universal and totalizing, that can represent itself > as such? I believe that conscious experience exists, fundamentally and uncaused. > "And there’s just the general question of what “reason” means in a > deterministic world, or a probabilistic world, or a purely contingent > world." > > Or how about a world which is a vague approximation of all three and > more. And more? What is this “more” to which you refer? Rex -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
