RE: A question regarding proof
September 8, 2011 at 6:36 pm
(This post was last modified: September 8, 2011 at 7:29 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(September 7, 2011 at 6:10 pm)Fred Wrote: I had a dream about a pony last night.
Can my pony dream be objectively proven?
In principle, yes, whether you had a dream about a pony last night can be proven or disproven. Your dream is an artifact of your nerological activity. Your perception of a pony is also an artifact of your neurological activity. With sufficiently detailed understanding of your physical brain structure, one could in principle prove whether you undertook such neurological activity as required by dreaming last night, and whether such neurological activity as required by perception of a pony occurred in conjunction with your dreams.
But in practice not yet. We don't yet have the ability to define your brain structure to such detail, nor have enough understanding of exactly how the state of your brain structure relate to your neurological activity.
But that doesn't change the fact that in principle, whether you've dreamed a pony is not solely up to your bullshit.
Since I can't prove yet whether you dreamed about a pony last night, I won't proceed too far down any path that requires firm commitment to the proposition that you either did, or did not, dream of your pony last night.
And no, whether it is proven that you dreamed a pony, we can prove a dreamt pony lack all attributes of physical existence.
BTW, dreaming of pony? Are you gay or something?
