YLIKOSKI@FINFUN.BITNET (06/14/88)
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 88 05:01 EDT
From: YLIKOSKI%FINFUN.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: science, reality, man
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In AIList Digest V7 #25, Bruce E. Nevin <bnevin@cch.bbn.com>
writes:
>the two aspects of what is real: the absolute Ding an Sich, and those
>agreements that we hold about reality so long as we can get away with
>it. In this relationship, consensual reality is not scientifically
>implausible; it is, at its most refined, science itself.
It would be interesting to hear opinions about the idea that we have
representations of the Ding an Sich very much like a robot which has
a representation of its environment.
Then that which we can perceive, think and feel only reflects that which
there is ... say, inside one's cranium, perhaps to put it in a better way
- what you can know reflects your mind.
Then what a scientist should do is to do things such as learning karate;
good music <Kraftwerk and Yello recommended> - good art - good
literature; study other sciences (I personally love Mathematics).
How well our intracranial representations reflect reality is a difficult
problem.
Andy Ylikoski