On 10/3/2024 11:35 AM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote:
First of all, you talk about space as if it is some obvious concept.
But is not obvious at all. As a quale in consciousness, space is a
particular meaning that ended up in our consciousness for evolutionary
reasons: this quale helped us survive and reproduce. Is identical to
the quale of "sexy woman". That sexiness that you feel when you look
at a woman, is a quale in your consciousness designed to facilitate
reproduction. Space is identical to sexiness: is a quale designed to
facilitate survival and reproduction. Yes, it feels as if it has
nothing to do with such matters, it feels as if it is some
pre-existing stage in which consciousnesses only later appeared and
only based on this pre-existing stage did they partake in the
processes of survival and reproduction. But this feel is misleading.
The quale of space itself is involved in survival and reproduction
directly. Given this true nature of what space actually is,
If there were nothing corresponding to the quale of space (and to sexy)
then the quale would be of no advantage in reproduction and they would
not have evolved. As my late friend Vic Stenger used to say, "We don't
know whether our theories of physics are true or not, but we know they
have something to do with reality."
Cosmin has gone so far down his own rabbit hole he's a solipist who
can't stop talking to other people.
Brent
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