On Aug 6, 9:35 pm, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net> wrote: > On 8/6/2011 4:59 PM, Craig Weinberg wrote: > > > The language doesn't matter. You can see that a person is in pain by > > their response to being burned, even if they have not developed > > language yet. > > Interesting. Now Craig *can* infer qualia from behavior.
We can always infer qualia. It doesn't mean our inference is correct. In this case I'm pointing out that the inference doesn't require a learned language. My point is that math is not nature, but nurture. If it were otherwise, I would expect the effects of alcohol intoxication or smaller brain cortex to make an animal more logical rather than more emotional. Emotion is more primitive than symbolic logic. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
