(December 20, 2011 at 3:04 pm)amkerman Wrote: if you can't be confident in your perceptions, you can not be confident in the things you perceive.
You can't even be confident in your reasoning, because the brain from which you consciousness arises is falible. There is no absolute truth to be learned, no curtain to be drawn, no Eureka moment.
I believe absolute truth probably exists (I would expect more randomness in the world otherwise), I also believe I can never know what it is.
But we can make predictions and see if they come true.
Perhaps it is time I explained what I do for a living. :-)