(February 1, 2016 at 8:37 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Why would I..how would I know what they look like? I don't have the ability to perceive such colors. That's not something eyes can do.I'm not talking about eyes. I'm talking about the brain.
Quote:Brain damage -does- give us experiences of things that don't exist, and things we couldn't perceive, such as the idea that we can hear the thoughts of others. It doesn't seem as though it's capable of granting us new sensory capabilities. I don't know what you expect, and I don't think you see how absurd the question you're asking is. Hell everytime you've asked a question along the lines of things you're yet to grasp about this position it's been an easily equivocated one. I'm starting to think you have a problem.Too much ad-hom or metacommentary. I think you haven't realized yet that I shifted gears about three days ago and I'm trying to establish in purely material terms what systems or functions of systems constitute "idea" and more importanly what systems don't and why. This is why I'm talking about DNA-- it seems to me that DNA represents an idea of a person, and Jorm disagrees. What say you?
I also want to know what, physically, represents an idea: what is it, how does it work, how do you identify one?
