RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
January 2, 2019 at 12:18 am
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2019 at 12:19 am by bennyboy.)
Well, it's always like this-- changing your world view is inefficient, so you'll tend to filter new info through what you already believe you "know," even if that knowledge is an enumeration of repeated statements by the people around you as you develop through childhood and young adulthood.
People can "know" God is real, and base arguments from that "truth." They can "know" the world is obviously flat, or that someone who says "I smell smoke" is really smelling smoke, rather than just seeming to. They can "know" that there's a deterministic material universe with only one possible resolution at a given moment, or that consciousness is a byproduct of the brain's evolved ability to process the environment.
One of the great advantages of science is that our assumptions about what we "know" in daily life are turned upside down. Anyone who "knows" about QM, or "knows" how QM manifests as material objects, and subsequently as mental experiences, is for sure stringing a series of declarations by fiat, and not using as careful a collection of measured inferences and logical conclusions as they allude to.
People can "know" God is real, and base arguments from that "truth." They can "know" the world is obviously flat, or that someone who says "I smell smoke" is really smelling smoke, rather than just seeming to. They can "know" that there's a deterministic material universe with only one possible resolution at a given moment, or that consciousness is a byproduct of the brain's evolved ability to process the environment.
One of the great advantages of science is that our assumptions about what we "know" in daily life are turned upside down. Anyone who "knows" about QM, or "knows" how QM manifests as material objects, and subsequently as mental experiences, is for sure stringing a series of declarations by fiat, and not using as careful a collection of measured inferences and logical conclusions as they allude to.
