RE: Transcendental Knowledge?
October 16, 2014 at 5:16 pm
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2014 at 5:18 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(October 16, 2014 at 5:09 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: 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.Bit of both, or so it would seem. We don;t actually "see" everything in our field of vision, for example. Some of it is legit, some is manufactured.
Quote: 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)?Here again, perhaps both? It would be difficult to understand why every one of our brains would manufacture the same deceit - for example. But...at the same time - we do know that it's capable of doing so for any given individual.
Quote:*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?Math is a descriptive representation, same as logic. I'd side with what you(or I) and the fieldmouse both perceive as being "the world" - personally (highly trained intellects need not apply). But in any given instance, of course it may be neither. Both math and our senses can refer to things not "in existence" anywhere else but math or our meatcase.
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