Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: robert j. kolker (nowhere_at_nowhere.net)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 14:12:56 -0500

Allan C Cybulskie wrote:

> The key thing is that simply having an experience is sufficient to allow me
> to read these "concepts" out of the experience itself not because the
> experience is so good at teaching these things, but because in order to have
> the experience the "concepts" must be applied to the experience to make it
> experiencable in the way we experience experiences.

What you say is true. To have experiences one must be the proud owner of
an experiencer. In our case it is wetware and not abstract. The only
categories that apply to what is transcendentally necessary to our
experience can be found in -Grey's Anatomy-. We are meat machines. Gooey
blobs and ugly bags of water that think.

Bob Kolker

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