On Jan 31, 3:25 pm, John Mikes <[email protected]> wrote: > Craig and Brent: > would you kindly disclose an opinion that can be > deemed "SUPPORTED"???? > > All our 'support' (evidence, verification whatever) comes from mostly > uninformed information fragments we receive by observation(?) of the > already accessible details and try to complete them by the available > 'knowledge' already established as "conventional science" stuff. > We use instruments, constructed to work on the just described portion of > observations and evaluate the 'received'(?) data by our flimsy > (*human?)*mathematical logic ONLY.
Yes! This is a core assumption of multisense realism. I go a step further to describe that not only do our observations arise entirely from our the qualities of our observational capacities (senses, sense making), but that the the nature of our senses are such that what we observe as being within us 'seems to be' many different ways, but the more distant observations are understood in terms of facts that 'simply are'. This forms the basis for our human worldviews, with the far-sighted approaches being overly anthropomorphic and the mechanistic approaches being the near-sighted view. > Just compare "opinions" (scientific that is) of different ages before (and > after) different levels of accepted (and believed!) informational basis > (like Flat Earth, BEFORE electricity, BEFORE Marie Curie, Watson, etc.) > > My "worldview" (and my narrative, of course) is also based on UNSUPPORTED > OPINION: "mine". Exactly. This is the native orientation of the universe. The impulse to validate that opinion externally is valuable, but it also can seduce us into a false certainty. This is not an illusion, it is actually how the universe works. In my unsupported opinion. Craig -- 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.
