(March 31, 2014 at 9:39 am)Alex K Wrote: I wonder, since it is so nigh impossible to even define what we are looking for, what would an explanation even in principle look like?
Science proceeds from the assumption of an objective world apart from your direct, subjective experience. Any "explanation" must be underpinned by some inference or other. So it looks like an explanation of our capacity to make inferences will itself resist an explanation free from inference.
