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5th Annual Konkan Fruit Fest
Promenade, D B Bandodkar Road, Panaji, Goa
16-18, May 2008
http://lists.goanet.org/pipermail/goanet-goanet.org/2008-May/073789.html
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--- JP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>And as the genius Betrand Russel once
> remarked, "If I were to suggest that between the
> Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving
> about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would
> be able to disprove my assertion provided I were
> careful to add that the teapot is too small to be
> revealed even by our most powerful telescopes.
>
What Russell failed to take into account is that such
a teapot, once conceived, exists in his mind as well
as the minds of his readers. Any mental representation
has a physical form in the brain. It determines
subsequent behavior. That is why no one can ignore it.
What is true, however, is that some mental
representations, such as those of the teapot and other
supernatural entities, do not have an observable
existence outside of the brain. They do not exist as
independent "facts in the world", as Cardinal Murphy
O'Connor might say.
Cheers,
Santosh
