Russell, Well, there is overwhelming evidence of many sorts. The very fact that you and I can even communicate about this issue is one proof, unless you think I'm just a pesky figment of your imagination!
And of course that can't possibly be true since I was here just fine before I ever met you.... The obvious fact that we have to eat and breathe to survive, unless you believe that just imagining food and oxygen is enough to sustain us. So again I would say you are confusing the internal simulation of reality that all minds produce, and that everyone thinks is the real world he lives in, with the real external reality that all minds simulate each in their own way. Edgar On Sunday, February 16, 2014 4:17:21 PM UTC-5, Russell Standish wrote: > > 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 hpc...@hpcoders.com.au<javascript:> > 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.
