Re: Summary of seed ideas for my developing TOE - 'The Sentient Centered Theory Of Metaphysics' (SCTOM)

2005-09-21 Thread Marc Geddes
On 9/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, you said All comments welcome.You asked for it.First, there's a lot to read here, so I assumed you were presenting the basic gist of your ideas in the first few paragraphs, and so I have afew comments about those paragraphs.I commend you

Re: Summary of seed ideas for my developing TOE - 'The Sentient Centered Theory Of Metaphysics' (SCTOM)

2005-09-21 Thread Marc Geddes
On 9/22/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By 'perceivable' I don't necessarily mean 'perceived by humans', whatI mean is 'perceivable *in principle* ( i.e. by some mind, somewhere inthe universe).I admit my misunderstanding, and that you are talking about theunperceivable rather

Re: Summary of seed ideas for my developing TOE - 'The Sentient Centered Theory Of Metaphysics' (SCTOM)

2005-09-19 Thread daddycaylor
OK, you said All comments welcome. You asked for it. First, there's a lot to read here, so I assumed you were presenting the basic gist of your ideas in the first few paragraphs, and so I have a few comments about those paragraphs. I commend you for trying to explain values as part of the

Re: Summary of seed ideas for my developing TOE - 'The Sentient Centered Theory Of Metaphysics' (SCTOM)

2005-09-19 Thread Benjamin Udell
Marc seems unclear between unperceivable and unperceived, maybe clearing that up would help. If everything real needs some sort of perceivability, then everything real would need not only to be interpretable and decodable, but also to be verifiable, confirmable, corroborable, etc., by

Re: Summary of seed ideas for my developing TOE - 'The Sentient Centered Theory Of Metaphysics' (SCTOM)

2005-09-19 Thread daddycaylor
Whether it's ignoring the unperceived or unperceivable, what I'm asking is: Why do you limit metaphysics, at the outset, to being for the purposes of understanding general intelligence? On the other hand, how do we know what general intelligence is if all we have is our human understanding?