Re: subjective reality

2005-08-11 Thread George Levy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:   I also have some trouble with the idea that we "share an I", as you put it, as I don't know to what extent  I do share mine with anyone! My notion is, instead, that the "I" is exactly what we DO NOT SHARE, what makes us different,  while Reality is all the rest:

RE: subjective reality

2005-08-11 Thread Lee Corbin
Chris writes > >>Well, maybe some of the above helped to explain it. Basing stuff > >>on "1st person" has a long history. That's what everyone, it seems > >>to me, did before the scientific era (about 1600?). So far as I know, > >>nothing has ever come of it. > > Its been the cornerstone of mode

RE: subjective reality

2005-08-11 Thread chris peck
Well, maybe some of the above helped to explain it. Basing stuff on "1st person" has a long history. That's what everyone, it seems to me, did before the scientific era (about 1600?). So far as I know, nothing has ever come of it. Its been the cornerstone of modern philosophy since the 1600's.

Re: subjective reality

2005-08-11 Thread kurtleegod
Hi George, I see your point. Brandon Carter expressed recently the same idea, it seams, when noting that Quantum Mechanics suggests to him that "objective reality is NOT a realistic objective". Perhaps, but that hardly implies that "subjective reality" is any more realistic as an scientifi

Re: subjective reality

2005-08-11 Thread kurtleegod
Lee, Bruno may not be very articulate and I may never forgive myself for trying to answer for him but I think he is clear enough about this: Godfrey Kurtz (New Brunswick, NJ) -Original Message- From: Lee Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: everything-list@eskimo.com Cc: everything-list@eski

Re: subjective reality

2005-08-11 Thread kurtleegod
Hi Lee, Lee Corbin writes: Godfrey writes > Hi Everythingers, > > Though I am new to the list I have been reading your fascinating posts > on this troubling issue of "reality" and subjectivity > so please pardon if I skip the protocol and delve into the discussion > right away. I have a bac