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--- In [email protected], "bobthomas564" <bobthomas564@...> wrote:
>
> Hi Joe - you state "this is a model" and that is very true. There is nothing
> you can say about this internal state, and as soon as you open your mouth you
> are wrong. BUT..... you have to say something and a model, like a parable, is
> a good way to gain some level of understanding. The fact that certain
> synapses are sending signals is interesting, but from a scientific POV it
> will teach you nothing about who you are.
>
> --- In [email protected], "Joe" <desert_woodworker@> wrote:
> >
> > Edgar,
> >
> > We observe how they work through the senses. Understanding them this way
> > is perfectly circular. And that is our reality. So, I'd say, don't play
> > it up as something special. We have what we have and make of it what we
> > will.
> >
> > The understanding you build of things like this is a model. It is nothing
> > better or closer to reality than that. It is a model.
> >
> > The view you express has a technical term, and it is not a put-down. It is
> > an accurate and polite categorization: "Naive Realism".
> >
> > There you have it. Make of "IT" what you will, also.
> >
> > Many of us have been there, done that. Especially the Scientists among us.
> >
> > --Joe
> >
> > > Edgar Owen <edgarowen@> wrote:
> > >
> > > Bob,
> > >
> > > Of course you are right and Bill is wrong. The senses are illusions. They
> > > are not reality as it actually is. This is abundantly clear to anyone who
> > > understands how they work...
> >
>
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