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 | | From: | Oliver Geraghty | | Subject: | steps | | Date: | Mon, 17 Jan 2005 00:41:09 GMT |
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 | The history of ideas about ourselves is a history of steps from
incomprehensibly exotic explanations to understandable ordinary ones. The
mind is still in the realm of the incomprehensibly exotic; a ghost with a
physical residence and lots of physical jobs. Mind/body is
software/hardware.
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| | From: | stlbl | | Subject: | Re: steps | | Date: | 16 Jan 2005 19:30:42 -0800 |
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| Many software engineers may object to you implying their code is
incomprehensible (they might like exotic)--but maybe as engineers they
would thinnk,"If it works---who cares whether or not it is incoherent
to outsiders." Ideas about ourselves I suppose includes psychology,
religion and mysticism---as far as understanding ourselves from the
point of view of our self---the self can be comprehensible ENOUGH to
each person at times-a wise old man told me once that it is not
important to people to have the RIGHT explanation for something they
did, or thought, or desired, only that they had SOME explanation for it.
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