On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:31:21AM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > Russell, > > Just to answer your question below of what evidence for humans each > simulating external reality in their minds, there are vast amounts of > evidence for that in cognitive science. It's not an assumption as you > assert, but something any cognitive scientist would agree with....
You have misread my question. I asked what evidence was there for an external reality independent of humans, that you so confidently asserted, rather than an intersubjective reality. > > Edgar Owen wrote: > > > I think the correct view is that reality is independent of human > > > perception, that it being functioning quite fine for 13.7 billion years > > > before humans came along. But that humans each have their own internal > > > VIEWS or SIMULATIONS of reality, which they mistake for actual human > > > independent reality. > > > Russell STandish asked: > > > > What evidence do you offer for this assumption? > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpco...@hpcoders.com.au University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
