Re: Epistemology 201: The Science of Science

From: aeo6 (aeo6_at_cornell.edu)
Date: 03/14/05 

Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:02:16 -0500

robert j. kolker said:
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> Tony Orlow (aeo6) wrote:
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> >>>
> > Is truth a dimension of physical reality? It seems to be a dimension of psychic
> > reality, as I demonstrated with the quantification of truth values as levels of
> > probability between 0 and 1. This is one of the dimensions that is mental, not
> > physical, just as energy (despite all the misuses of the word) is physical, not
> > mental.
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> What is then mental? What are its laws. Of what does the mental consist?
> Where are the elements of the mental located? What theories of the
> mental produce quantitative and testable predictions?
>
> Bob Kolker
>
Are you actually interested? From what I've seen, any response to these
questions is met with the same old denial, every time.

When you ask about location, you ask a physical question about space. Stop
being so concrete.

I mentioned Pavlov, who discovered one of the basic laws of mind - positive
associative learning. This is not a physical law. It's about information, and
how to use to to achieve results. We have discussed logic, which is far from
physical. All of math consists of non-physical entities and processes. If you
try, you can find references to many mental entities and their qualities
throughout this thread. 

-- 
Smiles,
Tony

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