(April 30, 2015 at 11:01 am)wallym Wrote: We are physical beings analyzing a physical world. Everything that exists, exists within it.
That seems rather parochial. Who’s to say that there are no other ways of existing and ways in which we unknowingly participate in them? People may be unaware of them now, but it seems premature to rule out the possibility.
(April 30, 2015 at 11:01 am)wallym Wrote: We talk [of] meaning like it is an external [ ]measurable thing. But what is meaning tangibly?
Must everything real be tangible? Is every real thing measurable?
(April 30, 2015 at 11:01 am)wallym Wrote: It is our brains assigning values to our perception of the world. [/i]If you do not distinguish between the apparent difference between the physical processes of the brain and the qualitative experiences of the mind, you run the risk of begging the question. It assumes a mind-brain identity theory and closes off other options.
[quote='wallym' pid='932405' dateline='1430406072']…that 'meaning' is not some intangible concept, it is a physical thing that exists. It is a fact.
A fact is propositional statement the contents of which are true. Do facts exist? If facts exist then you tacitly accept a category for intangible beings.
(April 30, 2015 at 11:01 am)wallym Wrote: And when we are all gone, does meaning still exist? No.
I don’t know. Does it?
(April 30, 2015 at 11:01 am)wallym Wrote: …the conversion of the waves into sound in my brain is real.
Is the reality of a process, like converting vibrations into sound, somehow different from the reality of a sensible body, like an apple? Are you suggesting one category of being for processes and a different one for sensible bodies?
