RE: Clarification of Terms (was RE: What We Can Know About the World)

From: John M <jamikes.domain.name.hidden>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 08:31:50 -0700 (PDT)

--- Lee Corbin <lcorbin.domain.name.hidden> wrote:

> Russell writes
>
> > John M. wrote
> >
> > > To Russell's 4 coordinates of (any?) event: how
> come
> > > the occurrence (event!) of a 'good idea' in my
> mind -
> > > (mind: not a thing, not a place, not
> time-restricted)
> > > should have t,x,y,z coordinates?
> >
[Russell?]
> > I would say that the event occurs in your brain
> (the neural correlate
> > of whatever is going on in your mind). Whatever
> is going on in your
> > mind is something else - an "observation" perhaps.
>
[JM]:
I guess whatever is observable in your brainfunctions
is not the event but its reflection. The event itself
is the 'occurrence' what you deem 'observation', while
you observe it only as it happenned.
It is quite clear as you call the brain a "neural
correlate", which makes it clear that it is not the
originating, neither executing factor, just a
correlate of such. Exactly the 'hard problem' since
Kohler's Gestalt.
I like the "correlate", it is pointing to the
inseparability of the functions as we try to decipher
them.

To the translations in Russell's other post: I take
translation = transfiguration, I read in 5 languages
and saw 'good' translations with different meanings.
Nothing beats the 'original' written in a
mother-tongue

John M
Received on Mon Aug 01 2005 - 11:34:03 PDT