That may be true but only a few graduates will agree on this point. Moreover there is undeniable progress in knowledge at least in specific fields. It...
Briefly an explanation of terms: Under objective reality I understand the material outside world including the material components of the body. In sho...
If there was no reality, or if reality is only constructed, then any gain in knowledge would be nothing but the deepening of a fiction. In everyday li...
The question is how accurate predictions of what we observe can ever become. We tend to imagine our cognitive faculties divided into different areas. ...
Do not be amazed at your existence. Because it is the condition for there to be questions at all. Why aren`t I anybody else? That`s the much more inte...
If we regard reality "as that part of our conscious experience that no amount of mental manipulation will alter" as TheMadFool stated then a lot of me...
It would be easier to understand the Enactivist view if you could give sort of a practical example. Let´s say, for Information taken from a warning th...
One Effect of Light energy is Color, but color is not intrinsic to photons. Gnomon That is at least debatable. Light has a wavelength, which subject A...
When I said: I have no problem with the equivalence of matter and information I meant that I have no problem to call it information, the structure or ...
"A dynamic brain state", as I understand, is work in progress. When you say information exists as brain state is this a conscious state? I would prefe...
If you mean by "Dynamic brain states" the ever changing network of synapses and the traffic that travels over this network, I agree with you. Somewher...
High Pop I have no problem with the equivalence of matter and information. However I see no advantage in this assumption. What is the practical conseq...
I thought the aime was to put together a meaningful definition of the term "information" (if possible?) I assume that the aime should be to define the...
If matter was somehow equivalent to information, what is meant by the common saying: wrong information? That shows, that even if it was true that the ...
Pop, this may be of interest for you: The German Carl F. von Weizsaeker and his students attempted to establish a theory called the "Quantum Theory of...
Reasoning presupposes some kind of rational thought ... The aliens of our thought experiment could well be ahead of us as logic is concerned. That cou...
Anyone who denies the aw of contradiction ... 180 Proof I do not deny that the axiom of cintradiction is a very useful tool. But given human logic dep...
"different creatures, different ways of experiences, different logic" Do these creatures see the whole world different? Or is a circle still a circle ...
Personally I agree with Kolakowski .. If Kolakowski is right, the quetion arises as to how (and if at all) progress in the field of epistemology is po...
What`s so completely dirfferent? Perhaps completely differnt is the wrong notion. What I mean: Given all nerve cells have developed from first primiti...
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