--- Lee Corbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russell writes > > > John M. wrote > > > > > To Russell's 4 coordinates of (any?) event: how > come > > > the occurrence (event!) of a 'good idea' in my > mind - > > > (mind: not a thing, not a place, not > time-restricted) > > > should have t,x,y,z coordinates? > > [Russell?] > > I would say that the event occurs in your brain > (the neural correlate > > of whatever is going on in your mind). Whatever > is going on in your > > mind is something else - an "observation" perhaps. > [JM]: I guess whatever is observable in your brainfunctions is not the event but its reflection. The event itself is the 'occurrence' what you deem 'observation', while you observe it only as it happenned. It is quite clear as you call the brain a "neural correlate", which makes it clear that it is not the originating, neither executing factor, just a correlate of such. Exactly the 'hard problem' since Kohler's Gestalt. I like the "correlate", it is pointing to the inseparability of the functions as we try to decipher them.
To the translations in Russell's other post: I take translation = transfiguration, I read in 5 languages and saw 'good' translations with different meanings. Nothing beats the 'original' written in a mother-tongue John M
