I am not suggesting that we are just novelty producing machines. What I am trying to convey is that we can only experience the world in terms of similarities and likenesses with respect to our history. Everything we encounter, no matter how new and surprising, has our stamp on it already. Nothing is ever completely unfamiliar to us. We can’t make any claims about a world beyond this relationship without lapsing into incoherence. — Joshs
I nominate changeability as that "something unchangeable" of reality. Physical laws (i.e. "a set of rules") are invariant structures of our best tested models for explaining how, under what precisely quantifiable conditions, do 'transformations of fundamental states-of-affairs into one another' (can be made to) happen.Reality on the other handshould[must] have something unchangeable, from which we can derive a set of rules. Since it is undisputed that the material expression of reality is in a constant flow, whatshould[must] we compare our picture of reality with if not with predictions we make of future conditions using these rules. — Mersi
I don't foollow you, Jack. What makes the "others" objective if they we cannot "see" them via empirical evidence and logic? How do you/we know these unseen "others" are, in fact, "objective aspects of reality"? Examples please.Part of the problem which I see is that certain objective aspects of reality are easier to see than others. Those are the ones backed up by empirical evidence, as well as those of logic. — Jack Cummins
:up: Why embodiment – embodied cognition – is still such a fashionable, faux-academic, blindspot puzzles me.Well, when you're a part of the world, you're not waiting for it in any sense. Nor do you create it. You live in it. — Ciceronianus
... Planck units of excitations of QFT (with which swirling-swerving-atoms-in-void are quite concilient). You're sadly incorrigible, sir :roll: :point:This was hoped to be 'the atom' - the changeless point-particles that are the irreducible constituents of the Universe. But, alas.... — Wayfarer
objective reality — Mersi
We like to see ourselves in a continuous process in the course of which empirical gain leads to an increasing convergence between human imagination and objective reality — Mersi
This means that a physics graduate in 2020 had a more accurate imagination of reality than such a graduate in 1950. — Mersi
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