Phat,
And this is the best subtitle I can recall. I want the t-shirt!
For us at least reality is a concept, especially when we use language to talk about things.
Dang, I'm running out of time this morning. I hope this thread does well.
So some notes on lines of thought I want to develop. Can we know reality? If we can't what is it we know? The idea I'm working towards is the concept of reality as functionality.
Organisms function. Knowing for lower organisms is doing like drinking, eating, chewing, smelling.
At this human level we have language which requires an abstraction of our doing to model our doing so we can communicate about it. Words are used to manipulate abstractions but can also be used to point to and/or be confused with non verbal actual experience. Those experiences are a doing of our nervous system.
Can we ever really know what we do? Or do we just do it and talk about it?
Do we have a sense of being that is fundamental or is it conditional?
I think it would be accurate to say that I have faith in being. But I'm not sure if that is good model of what I mean.
lfen
ps After proof reading this I find myself wondering if I've read one too many Brad posts. I am really trying to make sense here. I do intend for my notes to parse.
ABE: off topic flash insight: Brad is doing to science what James Joyce did to literature!? Could be? yes, no, maybe?
This message has been edited by lfen, 05-02-2006 11:36 AM
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