Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!umd5!uflorida!beach.cis.ufl.edu!tws From: tws@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Thomas Sarver) Newsgroups: comp.society.futures Subject: Re: *IF* Keywords: Kant, Dualism Message-ID: <16236@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Date: 22 Jun 88 02:53:15 GMT References: <8806120535.AA26709@bu-cs.bu.edu> Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU Reply-To: tws@beach.cis.ufl.edu () Organization: UF CIS Department Lines: 39 In article <8806120535.AA26709@bu-cs.bu.edu> harvard!codas!ki4pv!tanner@BU-CS.BU.EDU writes: >[ Remember the two clocks from philosophy 101? One had hands, but > no bell. The other had a bell, but no hands. If both are set > accurately, when the large hand on the one points up, the other makes > noise. ] > >Consider now your vax::program relationship \(em a single clock, with >wires to a bell. At the proper time, the bell goes off because the >clock pushes in a switch. > >On the other hand, the brain::mind (thought) relationship may more >closely resemble the two clocks of PHL101. At any rate, I will grant > Dr. T. Andrews, Systems > CompuData, Inc. DeLand Come, Come, folks. Those in PHL101 also remember that Kant came along and blasted the Mind/Body Dualism. I like the poster who talked about the mind continually redefining itself as a result of its experiences. This maps directly onto Kant's treatise that the mind interacts with the experience and EVERYTHING IS RELATIVE. More specifically, the minds uses its past experience to map what is already known onto the new experience. That which has never been experienced before will probably not have an effect. Those things most familiar will only reinforce what is already known as "fact." While an experience somewhere in between will lead to new knowledge and more intro- spection. (Some of Kant's work was used in Learning Theory.) If we are going to talk philosophy, at least use one up to date enough to map onto the subject. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ But hey, its the best country in the world! Thomas W. Sarver "The complexity of a system is proportional to the factorial of its atoms. One can only hope to minimize the complexity of the micro-system in which one finds oneself." -TWS Addendum: "... or migrate to a less complex micro-system."