Russell, Sure, but that only works if what the similar minds observe is also similar. If similar minds observe different things they will get different answers....
Edgar On Friday, March 7, 2014 7:23:46 PM UTC-5, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:02:46PM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > > Brent, > > > > Yes, exactly. The agreement of nearly all minds on the values of > empirical > > observations is truly remarkable. The vast edifice of science whose > > accuracy is confirmed by the incredibly complex technologies based upon > it > > would not exist if this were not so. So there is quite obviously some > > actual universe 'out there' on which minds in general agree no matter > how > > minds work... > > How does this follow? Couldn't it be possible that our observations > agree (more or less) with each other because we (as observers) are > more less similar to each other? > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected]<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 [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/d/optout.
