Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA02453 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Mon, 18 Sep 2000 13:04:06 +0100 Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 12:29:24 +0100 From: Robin Faichney <robin@reborntechnology.co.uk> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk Subject: Re: memetics and knowledge Message-ID: <20000918122924.A1783@reborntechnology.co.uk> References: <20000918011306.AAA12739@camailp.harvard.edu@[204.96.32.215]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000918011306.AAA12739@camailp.harvard.edu@[204.96.32.215]>; from wade_smith@harvard.edu on Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:13:09PM -0400 Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 09:13:09PM -0400, Wade T.Smith wrote:
> >>But, yes, somatic
> >> 'knowledge' is another path the senses use to offer experience to the
> >> brain.
> >
> >Wouldn't it be simpler to say: we can learn through our senses, as well
> >as through symbolic communications?
>
> 'Learning through our senses' sounds nonsensical to me. Machines can
> sense- all instrumentations are sensory systems at one level.
That's funny. The notion that machines can sense seems very strange to
me, but I'm quite happy for them to learn, assuming they've been designed
to do so. But this is entirely semantics, isn't it?
> The
> straw here is that the mystic has no bicycle (of whatever material) to
> offer the neophyte, and never did and never will.
That's just a statement of your faith, isn't it. Otherwise, let's see
some evidence.
Of course, it would help if you're using the same definition of "mystic"
as me, which I've taken some trouble to explain here recently, which
discussion you've taken part in, contributing several quotations from
dictionaries. Unless you prefer to revert to "religious superstition",
of course, in which case there's no argument.
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