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Started by Ed Kaulakis
Sat, 26 Mar 1988 16:35
Re: The nature of reality.
Author: Ed Kaulakis
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1988 16:35
Date: Sat, 26 Mar 1988 16:35
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In article <356@thirdi.UUCP>, sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode) writes: > Consciousness in others, similar to what we experience, cannot be directly > experienced (absent telepathy) and therefore must be proved -- e.,g., by > behavioral means. This is true of skeptical discourse. What does it say about reality?
Re: The nature of reality.
Author: Sarge Gerbode
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1988 02:17
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1988 02:17
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In article <3011@gryphon.CTS.COM> edk@gryphon.CTS.COM (Ed Kaulakis) writes: >In article <356@thirdi.UUCP>, sarge@thirdi.UUCP (Sarge Gerbode) writes: >> Consciousness in others, similar to what we experience, cannot be directly >> experienced (absent telepathy) and therefore must be proved -- e.,g., by >> behavioral means. > > This is true of skeptical discourse. What does it say about reality? That just shows what happens when one gets careless in one's mode of expression. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I did not mean that we needed to prove the existence of others in order to live life. I just meant that if we *did* want to prove it (for some bizarre reason), we would have to use behavioral criteria. One could raise the point, favorite amongst psychodynamic psychologists, that as infants we had to go through a stage of proving this to ourselves, but it's hard to say how this, in itself, could be proved. -- "The map may not be the territory, but it's all we've got." Sarge Gerbode Institute for Research in Metapsychology 950 Guinda St. Palo Alto, CA 94301 UUCP: pyramid!thirdi!sarge
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