[Krimel] Nice answer, Ian. I was prepared to just say, yes. Except electrical impulses aren't strictly speaking objects and the impulses in the brain are at least as much chemical pulses as they are electrical. But, yeah, what you said...
---------------------------------- Chris, I would say Ideas and thoughts exist as ... Patterns that emerge in, or can be represented in, patterns in physio-electro-chemical activities in a "brain". Where, Physio-electro-chemical activities are patterns in the physical substrate of a "brain", And a "brain" is Either (biological) patterns in the emergent biological patterns that arise in the physical substrate. Or (physical machine / tablet of stone) patterns in patterns in patterns .... in patterns in the physical substrate. In all cases the patterns being a combination of recurring (static) or evolving (dynamic) patterns of interactivity, even down through the physical (inorganic) layer. Objects are short-hand (and therefore imprecise) patterns a brain uses to represent any of the patterns (in patterns) ... in patterns above ... when it is useful to manipulate or store or communicate them whilst minimising the resources consumed. Of course you might find it more useful to dispense with all of that and describe the thoughts and ideas in terms of their content and what they do, rather than this ontology of their existence - which is pretty reductionist and of limited usefulness. Regards Ian On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Christoffer Ivarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Everybody. I'm not going to be super-active here for a while because I'm > writing some history papers etc, but I did amuse myself a while ago by > asking around a bit on a internet forum with a philosophy section about how > people defined ideas and thoughts. About the only answers I got was > "electrical impulses in the brain" - meaning basically that they don't think > there is anything but objects. I was just wondering, how would any of you > answer to this. > > Well, back to work. > > Regards > > Chris > > Moq_Discuss mailing list > Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. > http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org > Archives: > http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ > http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
