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- From: rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu (Mickey Rowe)
- Newsgroups: talk.origins
- Subject: Re: On God and Science
- Message-ID: <102829@netnews.upenn.edu>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:20:56 GMT
- References: <V7gZVB1w165w@kalki33>
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- In article <V7gZVB1w165w@kalki33> kalki33!system@lakes.trenton.sc.us
- writes:
-
- >Well, I can observe that I have a conscience. Therefore that conscience
- >is an "object" of my perception.
-
- You've already missed the boat here, Kalki. Why do you presuppose
- that something that you perceive to be an "object" is a unified
- quantity with objective reality? Perhaps you should find out more
- about the problems with object classification. You can start with
- some low level processing, like Ramachandran's studies of the
- perception of illusory contours. Then you can look at some higher
- level psychophysics by reading about Anne Triesman's work on "object"
- perception. Then you can move up to higher level classification
- schemes by studying Martha Farrah's work on "object" recognition in
- normal vs. brain-damaged individuals.
-
- Aw skip it, you'd have to actually learn something about the
- fragmentary nature of "consciousness" if you went that far. You
- wouldn't want to do that because it could destroy your entire world
- view. Sorry to take up your time :-/
-
- >Sincerely,
- >Kalki Dasa
-
- Mickey Rowe (rowe@pender.ee.upenn.edu)
-
- P.S. I didn't bother to read the rest of Kalki's post... I don't want
- to waste too much time on them, so forgive me if I fail to point out
- any other howlers in this particular piece of work.
-