Yourself?

Beg to differ on the first. If we didn't exist, would the rules not exist?

We are on agreement with the second.

Comments later on the third.

We can't exactly see many things, but we do imagine them, and we do visualize them. Examples, DNA, Atoms, Molecules, etc... Just because we cannot directly use our senses, doesn't mean we are cut off from the experience. Experience brings with it understanding. And if we understand, we must have experienced it directly in some form or other (read: experiments). I'm pretty sure I can visualize the 4th dimension, and I believe it's time, or space-time.

I think the error is made when you mix seeing with experience. I assume seeing is a part of experiencing. I assume hearing is too, as is touch. Even though I've not had sex, I do have a concept of what it might feel like. An idea. Even if I have never bungeed, I do know what bungee jumping might feel like, when I stand on the edge of a tall height. The human brain can draw parallels based on incomplete information, to create concepts which are chimeras of all these experiences. Thus it is possible to conceive what once has not experience, and even more importantly, the conception of the idea only drives development of the experience.

The third point. I wasn't making a point on which is advantageous or anything, but more importantly is the idea that a higher order mechanism is something that works that the lower order mechanism can not hope to conceive. Our body can never begin to imagine how the conscious mind works, and our conscious mind cannot even begin to understand the motivations and the impulses of the unconscious mind.

Our processing capability is really up to par, or even greater than par. The world has an infinite number of polygons, and our eyes and our mind, computes the 3 Dimensional information of the world around us with ease. We know instinctively, at a single glance, which objects are nearer to us, which objects are further from us, where are the parts jutting out, where are the dents going in. And all that at an amazing speed of 20-30 milliseconds all the time. Even when we're asleep. And even more so, based on a 2D source (say a TV), by the movement of the camera, we can fully understand and calculate the 3D space of the 2D recording. No computer can do that.

posted by Downhere. @ 11:59 pm