Don you want to join the party?Yes the lunatics are taking over the asylum.
Try it. It makes the things lot's easierYes it is surprising how your managing that, with a straight jacket on.
No, the word "reality" has different meaningOr could it be you like to change the meaning of words to suit your current post.
The word real only has one proper meaning, physically existing not imaginary, authentic undisputed verifiable fact.
physically existing ?
do you want to refer to the physical theories that talk of physical object not perceivable?
do you want to talk of the physical reality behind our perception of which the brain is coomposed and generate our perception?
this is the meaning I was refering when I was talking abour the reality behind our perceptions. The physical reality is not composed of bananas
the other meaning is the one used in everydy language by the adjective "real":
this banana is real is to say that we can eat it and have the delicious taste of a real banana, as opposed to fake bananas.
But here we are not referring to something behind our perception, at least not to what the reality is composed of.
Absolute rubbish, in your imagination probably
.So this banana, that looks, taste, smells, feels, and even sounds like a banana is a what!. If it waddles like a duck, looks like a duck, and sounds like a duck, smells like duck and taste like duck, then it must be a fish.
a banana has menaing only to beings able to interact with it. thus without humans or monkeys or anything, banana as yellow and sweet would loose its existence.
The existence, the reality of banana is relative to us.
you can say that this banana is an ensemble of atom (from your physical perspective) but it is no more a banana as something sweet, yellow.
all these adjective have meaning because of the interaction of these atom to our retinas and our gustative organ.
No it is in fact the definition you use: physical realityNo it's a construction made by your imagination, emphasis on your imagination.
No they are facts, in this world they would be fact irregardless of us existing, there would still be bananas, oranges and apples etc...
no they would be only bananas in potentiality. (to use Simon Anders definition)
Please read Varela or Brian Smith, maybe you will listen to them.You do talk some utter and complete bollocks.
physically existing, please define it.These so called other meaning or should we put them in there proper position sub-meanings were covered here The main one being physically existing.
Ithink you mean: what the reality is compose dof independently of our observation. in otehr word what is behind our perception and generate them in the case of the brain.
If a person continues to be ignorant whilst all around him is trying to correct him, then he doesn't deserve anything other then ridicule, it's Compounded ignorance the Romans had a word for it "dulcis ignorantia".
I am not ignorant on the basic scientific assumption, I am proposing an justified alternative
Basicaly he is arguing that the working brain alone of an animal does not result in consciousness, for instance if you look at it on a computer wiring scale it comes to the same conclusion. A wired network and system can send and recieve information that is processed and checked as many ways as you like but it will not result in consciousness of the system.
Not really, I want to say that our perception are the result of consciousness alone.
no need for a physical reality that give birth to consciousness in a unknown or magical way.
You BELIEVE I make such assumption but I do not. You are the one who amke sthe assumption that brain causes consciousness! isn'it?I know he's making that baseless assumption, but it doesn't follow, it needs evidence, doesn't it...humans/animals aren't just functioning computers. they are a lot more.
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