Posted by
Nick Thompson on
Aug 24, 2014; 11:01pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/BBC-News-Ant-colony-personalities-shaped-by-environment-tp7585564p7585645.html
The question for me is not whether "one knows what one is talking about" in
the sense of "has the knowledge to speak wisely on the subject at hand." I
assume that all people have enough knowledge to speak wisely about
consciousness. What puzzles me is that many speakers ... perhaps most ...
never use that knowledge when called upon to define consciousness, or
describe their understanding of it.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
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On 8/24/2014 1:30 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
> The discussion of perpetual motion machines just provides an example
> where the anal-retentive can dot the i's and cross the t's to verify
> that it is indeed possible to make statements in which one does not
> know what one is talking about.
I'm torn: Nihilism or Constructor Theory? :-)
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