Peter,
Care to elaborate on 'primitive' in "the probabilities of 'thingness' in the
world around us is quite primitive"?
Also, care to tell us all how perception can evolve?
Cheers,
Pzeph
> From: "Peter Lennox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:12:56 -0000
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> Subject: MD particular/general
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> from the point of view of the evolution of perception, I'm not sure that
> "the particular" is processed by similar ciruitry to "the general", and so I
> don't think the two concepts are closely related. I don't feel that a
> 'particular' is,as it were, chosen from a general class of things. I think
> that, whilst the assumption of the probabilities of 'thingness' in the world
> around us is quite primitive, the general classes of things (doggishness of
> dog) are much more recent concepts.
> cheers
> Peter Lennox
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