Yourself?

If we didn't exist, the things we call rules will be called something else by those who take our place. In some societies it is called fate. The whole idea of rules has been thrown into question with this quantum physics thing, because it gets harder and harder to modify these rules to fit the observations. In the end it all boils down to this... equilibria between order and chaos, and whatever is in-between. Some things can be predicted, and some can't.

A good example would be radioactivity. No rule tells us when a particular nuclide will decay - it is completely random (or so I am taught). But the half-life rule/observation enables to predict, rather accurately, what proportion of nuclides will still be radioactive after a certain period of time.

So, if we are not here, yes, rules will still exist. But not the way we conceive them to be.

Yes, the concept of - imagination. An integration of what we already know (what we have been told), into what we have not experienced yet. Our experience is the way our mind interprets the observations and feelings sent to us by our senses (not just those 5). Without this processing nothing is an experience.

I don't agree on the last point. We can take it all in with ease, because it is easy to just sit there and take it in. But when asked to visualise it ourselves we are unable to do so all at a go. Kim's game: We can see and perceive the objects in a room, but when asked to visualise the room, we can only do so one object at a time, and not all of it together at one go. And when it comes to really huge or complex objects, we have to visualise it one part at a time.

A correction on my part. If you were to liken the brain to a PC, what is lacking is not so much the GHz, but the RAM. The GHz is sufficient for our daily needs, but to really see the whole picture and its details we need to work on the RAM. I think we have it, but because we don't really need it or use it that much, most of it goes untapped.

The PC is beyond comparison to the mind in its entirety. The Pc is programmed in binary, we are - something else altogether. I don't think anyone here thinks in binary.

posted by k @ 10:11 am