Re: Interesting talk about how our minds shape our perception of reality

2007-06-02 Thread Mohsen Ravanbakhsh
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

Re: Interesting talk about how our minds shape our perception of reality

2007-06-02 Thread Brent Meeker
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

Interesting talk about how our minds shape our perception of reality

2007-05-31 Thread Jason
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