[MD] Mystics and Brains

[ian glendinning]

Craig, Platt,

Tectonic plates are crashing into each other now ... you can measure /
witness it any day you choose. But that doesn't help the argument.

Time / change / causality are pretty weird concepts when you look
closely, and I have looked. Paul (Turner) seemed to get closest to it
before. There is a kind of truism that only "now" exists to be
experienced, and everything else is an explanatory / sense-making
model we hold in our heads. As a result it's possible to hold very
different views, all consistent with empirical experience - by
definition - we hold them precisely to explain empirical experience.

Free lobster tomorrow.
Ian

On 2/1/07, craigerb at comcast.net <craigerb at comcast.net> wrote:
> [Platt]
> > Crashing tetonic plates only occur in your present imagination. You may strongly believe now that
>  > crashing plates occurred in the past, and can now point to evidence that it happened. But you can't
> > leave the now to actually witness the events.
>
> What is the importance of witnessing the event?  Esse ist percipi, Brute?  Crashing tetonic plates may be occurring all over the universe--in places I can't witness, find evidence of or even imagine.  Are you saying that therefore they didn't happen?
> Craig
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