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Some of what the Pittsburgh terror brings up for me
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<blockquote data-quote="Copabanana" data-source="post: 741940" data-attributes="member: 18958"><p style="text-align: left">But Elsi, everything that we perceive is constructed in the human mind to some degree or another and filtered through our perceptual limits. </p> <p style="text-align: left"></p> <p style="text-align: left">I am getting way beyond my competency here, and I do not want to argue myself into a corner, but can it really be established by science that there is anything in the world that can be independently verified. Every measuring stick has itself been developed by humans, in relation to our own perceptional limits. Our eyes, our brains, our sense of touch--these are not independent and objective faculties. Physics and mathematics, yes, I agree with that. Maybe I think of "order" rather than fact, as being verifiable, according to how the human brain operates. Everything else, except physics and math, is consensual.</p> <p style="text-align: left"></p><p>Elsi. I am waaay over my head. I think you are probably right. But I do not think this way. I have way more doubt and little security in anything other than ideas that come out of my own head (unfortunately) and heart.</p><p></p><p>Thank you very much Elsi.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Copabanana, post: 741940, member: 18958"] [LEFT][COLOR=rgb(20, 20, 20)][/COLOR]But Elsi, everything that we perceive is constructed in the human mind to some degree or another and filtered through our perceptual limits. I am getting way beyond my competency here, and I do not want to argue myself into a corner, but can it really be established by science that there is anything in the world that can be independently verified. Every measuring stick has itself been developed by humans, in relation to our own perceptional limits. Our eyes, our brains, our sense of touch--these are not independent and objective faculties. Physics and mathematics, yes, I agree with that. Maybe I think of "order" rather than fact, as being verifiable, according to how the human brain operates. Everything else, except physics and math, is consensual. [/LEFT] Elsi. I am waaay over my head. I think you are probably right. But I do not think this way. I have way more doubt and little security in anything other than ideas that come out of my own head (unfortunately) and heart. Thank you very much Elsi. [/QUOTE]
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