Dear Matthew,
You wrote:
In my
view it is a really big thing to say that we do not together inhabit some
common world. We might experience it in different ways, but to say that what we
experience is different is quite another thing.
Regards
Matthew
West
Information
Junction
I am an avid psych lit reader, but not a psychologist. From
my readings, I think most of what we experience is a reactivation of our
memories, comprising a jambalaya of objects that are in some way linked either
to the present stimuli, or to other memories of other linked stimuli.
I think of it as a DAG (directed acyclic graph) of AND and OR
nodes with a "~" prefix to calculate the complementary NOT. In total,
an AND/OR graph, with symbols and functions with parameter lists, all
represented in the DAG.
The linkage, according to Chomsky, is a stored pattern with
empty slots, or variables, that we fill in with bits and pieces of the current
situation. We see this newly filled-in pattern, in many ways like the
matching pattern along with links, within links, ..
So do we inhabit a commonly shared world?
We can never know that. We can share our knowledge and
observations with other agreeable agents, and they with us, and we can even run
confirmatory experiments to confirm or deny our own view of a theory, theirs or
ours. But we can't really know if it is the SAME experience we have, or
an experience of the SAME situation, because we are different observers, each
with our own vast library of biases.
Sincerely,
Rich Cooper,
Rich Cooper,
Chief Technology Officer,
MetaSemantics Corporation
MetaSemantics AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com
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Dear Kingsley,
On 6/30/15 9:21 PM, Chris Partridge wrote:
Not sure this is going to get us far, but I
still cannot make much sense of "But the point is that
none of it is about objective reality or objective truth. It is about the
world as seen by the people and software that have to communicate." Don't we see/sense the same world?
No we don't.
[MW>] That’s a big statement.
Would you care to back it up with some evidence, rather than just assume it is
a self evident truth?
That's Ed's fundamental point. The very
same point made by John Sowa, Patrick Hayes and others -- in a variety of
posts over the years.
[MW>] I’m not sure I’ve
heard them say that either. Care to give specific quotes?
In my view it is a really big thing to
say that we do not together inhabit some common world. We might experience it
in different ways, but to say that what we experience is different is quite
another thing.
Regards
Matthew
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We are individuals for a reason :)
Think of this as the cognition paradox .
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