bobr (08/13/82)
Oh my "God", Gaw's article (gaw at sri-unix) exhibits an extra- ordinary though somewhat uncommon arrogance: "..everybody should concentrate on finding truths that work for the whole universe. The truth that I stated will work for any rationally thinking creature.." Well, Gaw is convieniently overlooking the fact that the definition of "who is rational" is essentially a bootstrap operation: People who think that they are rational DEFINE what rationality is, thus also defining the class of rational people and the concept of truth. The fact that most of us have the same mental images most of the time DOES NOT NECESSARILY IMPLY that reality has an existence independent of our minds (which would relegate people who talk about mental worlds to crackpot status, including Gaw him/herself). (N.B. : if you want to be precise and nit-picky you should substitute the phrase "same mental images" by "mental images leading to the same actions".) Christoph Bobrowski utzoo!utcsrgv!bobr