Bruno Marchal wrote:
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> Le 01-juil.-06, à 19:54, Brent Meeker a écrit :
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>>Sure it is. Just because something cannot be directly experienced
>>doesn't rule it out of a
>>scienctific model: quarks can't be observed, but their effects can.
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> OK, but we were discussing about theories. general relativity, as a
> theory does not assume the existence of readers of "relativity
> journal". The quantum theory *with collapse* is already less clear on
> that ...
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>>So I believe in other people's
>>first person experience because that is a good way to predict their
>>behavoir.
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>
> Except the same theory would predict the behavior of zombie. We are
> arguing on a fundamental level. All what I argue for is that once you
> *assume* comp, then there is no aristotelian primary matter, and
> eventually physics is branch of number's bio/psych/theo/logy.
As I understand it, assuming comp is assuming that there are no zombies.
Brent Meeker
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Received on Sun Jul 02 2006 - 14:55:13 PDT