RE: why do we enjoy poetry From the perspective of neuroscience?
January 10, 2019 at 3:46 am
(This post was last modified: January 10, 2019 at 4:42 am by bennyboy.)
(January 10, 2019 at 3:13 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Simply, in the case of a material monism - pretty much as we have been. That's what made (contemporary)idealism ultimately give way and reconcile itself to materialism. The sheer amount of evidence is overwhelming, and the material explanations both compelling..and fruitful.No, the focus on the utility of objectivity and the decline of religious ideas has done that. The "sheer amount of evidence" you're talking about is a sheer amount of begging the question. If you're trying to hit a melon with a hammer and say, "See? Evidence of an objective material monist reality," then you're doing it wrong.
I'd say that if you have an idea about a material monism, and none of the constituent elements cannot be represented unambiguously in both time and space, then that's such a strained view of material that the term means very little. "Oh. . . that particle (which has no definite shape or position) went back in time and manifested as a wave because we decided not to check its state. That other particle, being entangled by interacting with a partner, allows for spooky changes in velocity at any distance." You can say "Yeah yeah, that's just physics, we know more about matter."
But I wouldn't say that. I'd say that when reality is expressible only in statistical ideas, then it would be better of seeing space as a virtualization of ideas, rather than ideas as a virtualization of space.
