[MD] Kant's Motorcycle

[Laird Bedore]

Hi guys, I can't resist butting in...

This is one of those things about reality that's SO directly in our 
faces that we can't see it. It's too obvious and we take it for granted.

In your other reply, you said:

> [Micah]
> What we know of our biology comes from our senses. Our senses are our
> biology.

No dude, our senses are our senses. There's biological SQ "out there" in 
that external reality. We may know _about_ it through our senses and 
intellect, but our knowledge (intellectual SQ) OF the biological SQ is 
not exactly the biological SQ. We may only "know" about the existence of 
biological SQ through the use of our intellectual SQ version, but that 
doesn't stop us from trying to act upon that biological SQ directly.

For example, surprising lab experiments. There are plenty of times when 
a scientist does a controlled in the lab and gets VERY unexpected 
results. If the biological or inorganic SQ the scientist is manipulating 
in the experiment (external reality) was exactly the same as the 
intellectual SQ rendition of it in his mind (internal reality), he would 
never get unexpected results. But he does, and these are seen as 
breakthroughs: situations when our (internal) interpretation of 
(external) reality is improved.

So yeah. Reality beyond our senses. There's more to the universe than 
what our senses make available to our minds. Infra-red that our eyes 
can't see, supersonic frequencies that our ears can't hear, chemical 
subtleties our smell/taste cannot distinguish. These things are "out 
there" in external reality. We find out about them through snazzy tools 
and thus create an internal rendition of what they're about, but our 
senses still can't sense them.

What's the alternative? No reality beyond our senses? That reduces all 
(real, not just intellectualized) quality to intellectual quality. 
That'd invalidate the MoQ in so many ways I don't even know where to begin.

-Laird

> [Micah]
> Case,
>
> What other sources? A reality beyond our senses?
>
> Micah
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:moq_discuss-bounces at moqtalk.org]On Behalf Of Case
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 12:35 PM
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
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>
> Not exactly, Kant agreed with the empiricists that information comes in
> through the senses. But he agreed with the rationalists that we have other
> sources of information. Reality is constructed out of this interplay of the
> senses and our biology.
>
> Case
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:moq_discuss-bounces at moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of Micah
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 12:59 PM
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> Case,
>
> I understand what Kant is saying about TITS. He is saying there is a reality
> we cannot know. How does he know that, since our only connection to reality
> is our senses. He is using his senses to disqualify his senses. I do agree
> that we anthropomorphize reality, but that is not a disqualification of
> reality, as Kant does.
>
> Micah
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:moq_discuss-bounces at moqtalk.org]On Behalf Of Case
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 11:37 AM
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Subject: Re: [MD] Kant's Motorcycle
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>
> Micah,
>
> You keep saying this like it is significant. Do you think your sense tell
> you everything? Do you think your senses are accurate all the time? I think
> you confuses sensation and perception and perception and cognition. We only
> have five senses for example and they operate only within a limited range.
> Kant was talking about something else though. He was saying that something
> in our organic structure causes us to organize our sensations in particular
> ways.
>
> Case
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:moq_discuss-bounces at moqtalk.org] On Behalf Of Micah
> Sent: Monday, December 04, 2006 12:18 PM
> To: moq_discuss at moqtalk.org
> Subject: Re: [MD] Kant's Motorcycle
>
> Case,
>
> Help me with this thread. How does Kant know his senses can't be trust to
> know TITS? How does he know that there are TITS? Is he using senses that
> can't be trusted? How does he know when to trust his senses and when not to?
>
> Micah
>
>
>