RE: Berkeley's argument for the existence of God
March 29, 2018 at 2:54 pm
(This post was last modified: March 29, 2018 at 2:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 29, 2018 at 2:48 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: How are you arriving there? There is a difference between the idea and the actual object, right?Sure, but the difference is not that one has mass and occupies space and the other does not.
Quote:The idea of the coffee cup is not the coffee cup.OFC not, just as an elephant and the idea of an elephant aren;t the same thing. One has too much mass and occupies too much space to fit inside your head. The other does not.
Quote:So what is it? And how can we measure the mass and volume of an idea?You can get a rough measurement of the total mass and space of all ideas by measuring the brain. It may be that some idea x is discrtete or distributed..and so the mass and space of that idea x would be directly proportionate to the discrete or distributed mass of the brain. Thaty;s just one way of doing it, which considers the instantiation of the idea as a meaningful inclusion of any measurement.
You could reduce that, if you liked..without such an inclusion or requirement to the total mass and space of the signals the brain carries..which is still a number greater than zero, albeit much smaller than anything the first method would yield.
(you could, obviously, include the entire cns in either method, if you liked.)
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