Re: What We Can Know About the World

From: Bruno Marchal <marchal.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 18:51:13 +0200

Le 30-juil.-05, à 17:18, Aditya Varun Chadha a écrit :

>
> I think Mazer has put this across quite nicely, so I pause here.

I agree with you and Jesse Mazer. Except that Jesse points on a
"speculation on the observer-moments", where I find enough to speculate
on the truth on the comp hypothesis which is implicitly or explicitly a
common hypothesis in both physics and cognitive science.

>
>> Since there is nothing specifically human about my idea of
>> "observer-moments" this analogy doesn't really work.
>>
>> Jesse
>
> I agree more with this version of "observer-moments". An assumption
> that an "observer" is a human or even a "biological" entity is being
> narrow-minded IMO.

OK. Many people tend to forget that rather key point.


Bruno

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