RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
December 26, 2018 at 2:42 am
(This post was last modified: December 26, 2018 at 2:43 am by Belacqua.)
(December 26, 2018 at 2:25 am)zainab Wrote: My question to you, friend .. Do ideas have an objective existence?
In one sense they certainly do. Once an idea is common knowledge among people, it can be approached as objectively as anything else. It need not be a physical object to be objective.
The best structure I've found for thinking about this is Popper's Three Worlds ontology. Common ideas are World Three objects.
https://tannerlectures.utah.edu/_documen...pper80.pdf
But you may be asking whether any given idea in my mind can be said to have an objective existence. This is a different question.
First, the word "objective" is surprisingly fuzzy, and you may want to find a more specific word. Something objective, strictly speaking, is just not a subject -- in the sense that the perceiving self is a subject and the thing perceived is an object. In that sense, I think it's true that if my self is contemplating an idea, it is an object.
Is this what you mean by objective?
