Hi Krimel > [Dave] > A brief comment, hopefully, on levels in general. > Dawkins, who I happen to be reading now, introduced me to a concept that I > hadn't heard before. The problem of the "discontinuous mind". As we divide > things up to help in our understanding of complicated things like evolution > or genetics or life we automatic introduce the this problem at all the > division points. Because life, genetics, and evolution is all a continuous > flow. No matter how we divided it into one tiny little event after another > we still are wrong. But it is the best that we can do. > > [Krimel] > This problem of continuous and discontinuous is a major big deal. James > handles it very well in "Some Problems of Philosophy" where he makes a > distinction between perception which is continuous and conception which is > discrete. The distinction is an important one and much confusion results > when we don't acknowledge it. Which, by the way, many here don't and their > confusion is plain to see.
And this is not the end of it we have at least two conceptions based on basic self/other split of the brain and how they work both separately, in parallel and at different speeds. We normal think of conception as associated with the left/language/reason side of the brain. But long before it has even kick in the other side has evaluated the perception and decided what it needed to do. I finished (not necessarily understood) "Zen and the Brain" last month and the complexities of how the brain works make one wonder how it works at all. Dave 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/
