Stuff for Brent and more.
1) Phenomenality
Definition:
Block N. 2003. Consciousness, Philosophical Issues about. In: Nadel L, editor.
Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science. London: Nature Pub. Group.
What's phenomenality? Did you look for it in a brain?
Yes. That's the whole issue.
Le 01-août-05, à 03:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin Hales) a écrit :
Reality vs perception of reality? I vote we work really hard on the
latter and drop all ascription in relation to the former. A
significant dose of humility indeed.
I don't think objective reality can be perceived (only
Le 31-juil.-05, à 03:13, Kim Jones wrote (just before the thread was
censored).
Theology concerns itself with the mechanism of belief.
What is the mechanism of belief?
It acts like a filter, or a pair of tinted glasses if you will.
Belief is that way of looking at reality that reinforces
Bruno wrote:
No. But then your definition of theology is perhaps a little bit to much a
contingent matter.
Perhaps the word theology has too many connotations.
I agree largely.
I think the correct distinction to make between what people seem to mean wrt
the religion/science dispute is
Brent Meeker writes:
I'm uncertain whether instantiated by abstract mathematical patterns means
that the patterns are being physically realized by a process in time (as in
the
sci-fi above) or by the physical existence of the patterns in some static
form
(e.g. written pieces of paper)
Hal:
My tentative opinion is that it does make sense to ascribe Platonic
existence to such things but I am interested to hear other people's
thoughts.
It is, perhaps, interesting, that 'time', for Plato,
is 'moving according to number'. That is to say ...
equations, if I understand it
Brent Meeker wrote (he always forgets to forward to the list):
Hal Finney wrote:
I'd be curious to know whether you think that Platonic existence could
include a notion of time.
I think timelessness is a defining characteristic of Platonic existence. I
use scare quotes because I'm not
My final ramblings.
From: Bruno Marchal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Moi
Reality vs perception of reality? I vote we work really hard on the
latter and drop all ascription in relation to the former. A
significant dose of humility indeed.
Bruno
I don't think objective reality can be
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