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 To: AILIST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU X-Original-To: @AILIST, YLIKOSKI Distribution-File: AILIST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU 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