Re: Interesting talk about how our minds shape our perception of reality
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! On 5/31/07, Jason [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 -- Mohsen Ravanbakhsh, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Re: Interesting talk about how our minds shape our perception of reality
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 -- Mohsen Ravanbakhsh, --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---
Interesting talk about how our minds shape our perception of reality
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 --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Everything List group. To post to this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en -~--~~~~--~~--~--~---