RE: Seeing red
January 31, 2016 at 10:52 pm
(This post was last modified: January 31, 2016 at 10:53 pm by bennyboy.)
(January 31, 2016 at 8:18 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(January 31, 2016 at 1:00 am)bennyboy Wrote: Well, if the brain (which is the system in question I suppose, we can talk about DNA later) is the system, and also the idea, then I'm not sure what an idea is at all. I had assumed that discrete configurations of encoded information were the ideas, and that the brain was the context in which ideas would have meaning.The brain isn't the system. The system includes all the parts of the feedback loop, including the efferent body, the world we are interacting with, and our perceptual systems.
If the entire universe is the system, then how are we to arbitrarily call subsystems "ideas," and others "just stuff happening"? We are connected, at least by gravity, to everything in the universe, are we not?
