Well, I think so (emoticon for nervous smile).
How can you even write to me without presupposing my existence. And as Holt
points out, the route to pointing out that I am just a figment of your
imagination requires the reality of something called an imagination. Holt
argued "Mind here" was a more complex statement than "world there" because the
former presupposes the latter but not the reverse. Contra Descartes, I am not
aware of a mind, I am aware of a world. Only after some heavy lifting can I
separate a mind out from the rest of the world. I mean, which do you think a
baby discovers first: his world or his mind?
Nick
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Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([email protected])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
----- Original Message -----
From: Miles Parker
To: [email protected];The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee
Group
Sent: 9/17/2009 10:02:04 PM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Faith and Science (was comm.)
On Sep 17, 2009, at 8:32 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
But it seems to me that every attack on realism I ever read presumes a
reality, including those I have been reading here.
Even mine? ;(
As Holt points out, you have to start somewhere and the simplest least
contorted beginning is to assume realism.
I'm not sure I understand -- why not simply start from experience and awareness?
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