On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:38:37PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > On Wed, 11 May 2011, Chris McCormick wrote: > >> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:12:04PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote: >>> It doesn't mean that those artifacts don't exist in the physical world, >>> it means that we had to invent those concepts by ourselves because we >>> can't perceive them from the physical world. >> >> At the very least they exist physically encoded in the brain chemistry >> of somebody who is thinking about those concepts. Brains are part of >> physical reality, right? > > Yeah, but the map is not the territory.
I am not convinced they are different in the case of things that "we can't perceive ... from the physical world." Cheers, Chris. ------------------- http://mccormick.cx _______________________________________________ Pd-list@iem.at mailing list UNSUBSCRIBE and account-management -> http://lists.puredata.info/listinfo/pd-list
