[MD] Kant's Motorcycle

[david buchanan]

Case said to Micah:
No, you are confusing sensation and perception. Sensations are just neurons 
firing. Perception is the organization of these impulses into thoughts and 
knowledge. Kant was saying that something in our nature contributes to this 
process of knowledge formation.

dmb says:
Besides the fact that this picture is predicated on SOM assumptions, the 
categories of thought which determine the process of knowledge formation can 
no longer be imagined in terms of anantomy but rather in terms of language 
and culture. The shape of reality is determined by our conventional 
concepts, which are natural, but not in the sense that brains and fingers 
are natural. The rate of biological evolution is such that anatomical 
features are practially constant. But cultural evolution is far more rapid 
and the shape of reality changes even in historic time. I mean, the 
categories of the mind evolve as fast as the language and culture so that 
they are something like identical.

Thanks
dmb

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