Re: The physical world is real

2007-09-23 Thread marc . geddes
On Sep 23, 10:39 pm, Youness Ayaita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There have always been two ways to interpret the interrelationship > between the physical world and our minds. There's a lot more than two ways. >The first one is to consider > the physical world to be fundamental; from this pers

Re: The physical world is real

2007-09-23 Thread Russell Standish
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:39:16AM -0700, Youness Ayaita wrote: ... Two approaches are physics is real (realism), and physics emerges (idealism) > It's a very trivial fact though that the two approaches are not > equivalent. Nonetheless it's interesting to note it. I argue that we > have good re

The physical world is real

2007-09-23 Thread Youness Ayaita
There have always been two ways to interpret the interrelationship between the physical world and our minds. The first one is to consider the physical world to be fundamental; from this perspective, the appearance of the mind is to be understood with the help of some neurological theory that maps