On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 05:49:11AM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > Russell, > > And, as I mentioned, there is exhaustive evidence from cognitive science, > and the sciences of physiology and perception, of the many specific > different ways that humans DO model an external reality in their internal > mental models of reality. > > Why do you just reject all this well documented science out of hand? > > Edgar
To be fair, you haven't been particular specific about what this "exhaustive evidence" is. I know of no neuroscience paper making ontological claims about reality. The closest I can think of is a paper written a few years ago by our very own Colin Hales, which I found rather waffly and unconvincing. Even he, I'm pretty sure, just assumed that there must be some sort of independent reality, though. What I am aware of, of course, is substantial evidence linking neurological brain states with conscious experience. This, as I mentioned, is evidence of what philosophers call physical supervenience, which is a manifestation of the Anthropic Principle: the phenomena we observed must be compatible with our existence within that phenomena. But it is not direct evidence of an independent reality. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
