[Ham] What about our "external" constructions? I'm somewhat annoyed by these repetitive allusions to the brain as an "antenna" picking up intellectual signals or a "mirror" of reality. Personally, I think Kant's 'TiT' rationale is a can of worms, and I have difficulty understanding how the Pirsigians can construe an experience-based metaphysics as fostering objectivism.
[Case] My take on this is that we have antenna that are the five sense. They receive signals from the external world. [Ham] I propose replacing the overused TiT ontology with TiS [Things-in-Self]. You frequently refer to man's image of reality as a "representation." Indeed, finite reality represents precisely what we experience. The objects and events that form this space/time reality are what we construct from our value sensibility. We transform otherness into particular "things" having particular qualities through our psycho-organic intellection. We perceive physical reality as the evolution of "beings" in time and space because our brain and nervous system is wired to observe them dimensionally and in transition. But the "essence" of beingness is Value, not energy, matter, or mathematical probability. All of the laws and principles that apply to our knowledge of objective reality are intellectualized from experience. In short, the relational world is a construct of man. With due respect for the "cleverness" of neuroscientists in coming up with theories that define human cognizance in terms of neuronic brain cell activity, this is how I see the Epistemology of Value. [Case] Ok so are you saying that there is no external reality? I mean there are physicists who say our individual witnessing of events bring the events into being. [Ham] Are we swapping spit yet? [Case] Swapping spit is a southern euphemism for French kissing. I think it's going to be a while before we are touching tongues. 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/
