Re: Jeff Hawkins Q&A


> >
> > Theoretically, there probably are an infinte #theories that can explain
> > anything, but it's a waste of time to try and worry about all of them.
> > So science tries to limit to those that are usable and to some extent
> > verifiable.
> >
> > It's the responsibility of the proposer to show his theory has some
> > credibility, not the responsbility of science to refute an infinite
> > #made-up stories.
>
> So why are you assuming that your feedback theory has credibility whereas
> the ridiculous theory I posited has none, when the same evidence can be
> explained by both? Remember that -- as you yourself has asserted --
> dualistic theories of mind were posited first. Materialism is the latecomer
> here.
>


So, now you need a seminar on the difference between religion and
science? Dualism is simply a modification on ideas already present 5000
years ago in Gilgamesh - [which is a must-read, if you haven't read
it]. Science was developed by latecomer men who simply found that
passed-down belief systems from their forebears were unacceptable.
Lucky for us, Galileo had access to the best technology money could buy
in the 1600s. Here, look in here, and you can see jupiter's moons too.





> But if you want "credibility", how about the fact that all dualistic
> theories take conscious experience and introspection on mental states into
> account, whereas yours does not.


Pagels said to the effect that, the problem with this type of thinking
is that it uses the unknown to explain the known. You guys are very
good at that.

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