Russell, Sure, but that only works if what the similar minds observe is also similar. If similar minds observe different things they will get different answers....
Edgar On Friday, March 7, 2014 7:23:46 PM UTC-5, Russell Standish wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 04:02:46PM -0800, Edgar L. Owen wrote: > > Brent, > > > > Yes, exactly. The agreement of nearly all minds on the values of > empirical > > observations is truly remarkable. The vast edifice of science whose > > accuracy is confirmed by the incredibly complex technologies based upon > it > > would not exist if this were not so. So there is quite obviously some > > actual universe 'out there' on which minds in general agree no matter > how > > minds work... > > How does this follow? Couldn't it be possible that our observations > agree (more or less) with each other because we (as observers) are > more less similar to each other? > > -- > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Professor of Mathematics hpc...@hpcoders.com.au<javascript:> > University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
