RE: Transcendental Knowledge?
October 16, 2014 at 5:09 pm
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2014 at 5:10 pm by Mudhammam.)
(October 16, 2014 at 4:57 pm)Exian Wrote: Well, we understand the level of accuracy our brains are capable of to an extent. We know of the light waves we cannot see and we know of the sound waves we cannot hear. And, within those spectrums, we know the sliver that we are capable of seeing and hearing. Then there are the hierarchal levels with their respective sciences that we know we cannot perceive physically nor intuitively. When you touch a table, you feel on more macro level than QM or even chem. Do these things bring our understanding of the representations of objects into sharper focus? If we did have these levels of sensation receptors and a brain capable of creating a representation based on those sensations, would this answer those questions? Or have I over simplified the question?Hmm. I think we would still have to ask to what extent those representations are manufactured cognitively and to what extent the external stimuli are being directly conveyed in our sense receptions of them. Perhaps further, what is doing the understanding--is our brain causing the world to appear, to us, logically consistent in intuitive perception (the function of understanding) or is that a feature of "the world"* and our brain is simply replicating it (both of which seem almost miraculous)?
*And what is "the world"?--the symbols and functions conceived by highly trained intellects to convey the Universe through mathematics, the large Macro-world our ordinary senses perceive, both, or at a more fundamental level neither?
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