Re: toy town


"Rowland McDonnell" <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1j1igow.shvlh31dp19r3N%real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
gROWLER <growl4me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Rowland McDonnell" <real-address-in-sig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> gROWLER <growl4me@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> emergency! less than 10 rizlas left.
>> life of enforced benefits. studied boredom is the rule.
>> spending £300 on cocaine seems moderately embarrasing - not me, not >> this
>> time, but i've had my moments.
>> what does it all mean to the forcibly tranquilized?
>
> Nothing, as all things. Television rots the brain. Our land is filled
> with the living dead, shuffling through their lives wearing blinkers
> over their eyes, unable to see the world unless it's broken down into
> something that they can suck from the Great Glass Teat sat in the > living
> room of almost every home in the land.
> I've long felt that such folk hardly know they're alive and barely
> notice dying.
>
>> i dream of lost meanings and future knowledge - is there progress in
>> history?
>> am i believed? do i believe anyone else? is to believe in another a >> kind
>> of
>> faith?
>
> Discard belief! Who needs prehistoric superstition to plan their
> future? I don't believe anything. Nothing at all[1].
> (I do it all on the basis of betting with myself, in case you're
> wondering)

i gave that a try sitting on my sofa in the front room.
i bet myself that the objects in front of me were my nike trainers,
and that the thing by the chair opposite me was as bottle of coke.
i felt a little worried that they might not be, having eliminated certainty.

<puzzled> The universe does not work on the basis of `certainty'.
Everything is probabilistic. /Everything/. There are no exceptions.

i think you are talking about modern physics
it is said that if i lean on a wall, there is a chance that i will fall through it
it is an infinitesimal but real probability.
and because physics is the grounding of all other science,
(so that chemistry depends on physics and biology on chemistry and neurology on biology and psychology on neurology etc.)
the rest of the "tree of knowledge" inherits the probabilistic nature of physics, due to inter-theoretic reduction.
but beliefs are a real part of neurology and psychology
the brain is representational in terms of information,
and in psychological terms these representations could be called "beliefs"

<snip>

-- gR

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