Re: type writers and tooth aches II

grayden wrote:

> But you are forgetting that that whole interpretation is a result of
> your experiential set. There is no justifiable reason to assume any
> hierarchical precedence of 'reality'.

Yes there is: if my representations get out of sync with the world, the
problem is with me, not the world.

> Your brain 'locked inside' your
> skull, isn't really locked inside anything. The neurons themselves may
> happen to be encased in bone, but their functioning is explicitly
> reliant on a continuous chain of dependencies. They rely on blood flow,
> nutrition, a body to interface them with the environment, sensory input
> to interpret. All of these elements are logically and physically
> enmeshed. If you try to define a physical boundary between 'you' and
> the environment 'out there', you'll find that nothing you come up with
> is complete. You, the environment, and the boundary are all
> manifestations of the same environment. So to say that there is
> something 'out there' and something else that is somehow less real 'in
> here' is largely unjustified.

It's justified by the fact that that the brain use representations,
which
is justified by the fact that we can see things which aren't there, in
dreaming and so forth. Of course, if we are representing correctly,
what we see
is not "unreal" in the way a hallucination is. OTOH , it is still at
a remove.

.

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