Mohsen Ravanbakhsh wrote:
I haven't seen the video yet, but I guess what you said are the words of
mysterians.
They believe that we can not solve some problems at all (mainly the
mind-body problem), as if it's like teaching quantum physics to monkeys.
You'd not accomplish that, because they're incapable of understanding
it. They say we are like monkeys in confronting some mysteries of the
world, some problem are beyond our capability to solve.
and... I don't want to be a monkey!
Maybe monkeys don't want to be monkey's too. I don't want to die, but that
seems to have little effect on the universe.
But I think you can argue that humans are capable (at least in principle) of
universal computation, so any understanding realizable as computation should be
within our grasp.
Brent Meeker
On 5/31/07, *Jason* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I came across this speech given by Richard Dawkins which I found quite
interesting, he ponders whether or not there are some elements of
reality so strange that they are ungraspable by any mind. This
reminded me of Bruno's categorization of the knowable, provable,
believable, etc.
Another part I found interesting was his ideas of how other animal's
brains might represent reality, and discusses bats seeing colors with
their ears, or dogs being able to judge the size of molecules they
smell.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6308228560462155344
Jason
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