On 3/29/06, Steve Desjardins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What he said. The natural sciences concern themselves with things that > can be observed or theories that can be verified empirically. The > extent to which those things overlap with REALITY is a question for > philosophy/religion/psychology. After all, reality as we know it what > our brains create; what I see is the picture the brain makes from those > little impulses coming from my eyes. I assume that it has some relation > to what's really out there or I'd be dead by now. Other than that, who > knows?
BTW, I'm in the middle of Looking for Spinoza by Antonio Damasio, a neurologist, and his description of the processes involved in us perceiving objects is almost exactly as you describe it. Perhaps you do know what you're talking about after all... <LOL> cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
