19 May
2011
19 May
'11
6:59 a.m.
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:38:37PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Wed, 11 May 2011, Chris McCormick wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 12:12:04PM -0400, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
It doesn't mean that those artifacts don't exist in the physical world, it means that we had to invent those concepts by ourselves because we can't perceive them from the physical world.
At the very least they exist physically encoded in the brain chemistry
of somebody who is thinking about those concepts. Brains are part of
physical reality, right?Yeah, but the map is not the territory.
I am not convinced they are different in the case of things that "we can't perceive ... from the physical world."
Cheers,
Chris.