On 1/21/2013 3:27 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Monday, January 21, 2013 5:38:32 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
On 1/21/2013 2:09 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote:
On Monday, January 21, 2013 4:59:55 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote:
On 1/21/2013 11:05 AM, Stephen P. King wrote:
Materialism fails since it cannot explain how it is possible for
material
things to have representations of things, intensionality, such as
numbers.
That's something evolution explains.
Evolution can be used to retrospectively judge that it would be convenient
if there
were such things as representations, but it offers no such thing as a
physical
ontology of it. Evolution can also 'explain' why we have teleportation, time
travel, and telepathy in the same way.
If you want a causal explanation then I recommend you study computer
science and
learn how a computer can have representations of cities and faces.
I have taught computer classes professionally actually. I'm certified MCSE and CCEA and
have been using computers on a daily basis since 1981. Computers have no
representations. It is us who use pixels to represent images or transistors to represent
bits of information,
...and images (in computers) represent objects.
not a computer. A computer wouldn't know the difference between a city and a face if it
scanned every image of a face and a city in existence.
Then how does one manage to negotiate the surface of Mars and another to drive through the
streets of Los Angeles.
Brent
I recommend you study semiotics and learn how symbols and subjects relate.
When it comes to semiotics, I'm a pragmatist. The meaning of a symbol is how it effects
the perceiver. I think it's amusing that what is taken as serious academic philosophy in
France is done in the U.S. as marketing research.
Brent
Craig
Brent
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