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#observer
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Observer-independent and observer-relative facts
Searle makes a distinction between observer-independent features and observer-relative features. Observer-independent features are things like gravity, mass, chemical bonds,48 the solar system, and mountains. These things exist even in the absence of human minds…
Color doesn't exist outside the brain
As mentioned earlier, color is a well-known example of something that does not exist outside of our brains. There are no colors in the observer-independent physical world. The photons that hit our eyes travel in wavelengths.…
Information is like lift
The concept of information is useful; so is the concept of lift for flight. This does not mean that lift is real. Importantly, we do not include lift in fundamental physics because the phenomenon of lift is reducible to still more basic laws of physics like mass and gravity…
How can subjective observers know the world?
how can subjective observers know anything about the observer-independent world? And as we saw in Chapter 6, we cannot assume that we can know anything about the objective world.
Computations describe the observer, not the mechanism
than about the mechanism itself.”
Infinitely many goals explain any behavior
The problem arises because we know that we are intentional systems—our goals are somehow real because we feel like we have goals. Other people might attribute different goals to us. For example, perhaps a Freudian might explain your neurotic behavior in terms of your…
La Formica Zen (italian Edition) ( )
La gente è il più grande spettacolo
La gente è il più grande spettacolo del mondo. E non si paga il biglietto.*(Charles Bukowski)
Life, The Multiverse And Everything: An Introduction To The Ideas Of Humberto Maturana Interpreting Maturana
Multiversa
While the universum is the ultimate reference cited for the validity of any statement in the transcendental path, the Multiversa is entailed by the parenthetic path, and implies that a multiplicity of realities can be brought forth depending only on the distinctions of the…
Constitutive ontologies = second path
In following the second path the observer assumes, quite differently, that the starting point must be the constitutive biological phenomena of being unable to distinguish perception from illusion in daily living. In the absence of being able to make statements about…
Parenthesising :
This clearly emerges from Maturana's theory concerning the ontology of the observer and underlying the fact that no objective reality exists independently of some observer. This view moves us to bracket or parenthesise all speaking and listening, all explanations, all…
Consensual behaviour (linguistic behaviour) has not semantics
An observer could describe these interactions in semantic terms, i.e. one could ascribe meanings to the elements in the coordination of behaviour e.g. "the cat is telling his owner that he wants to go out". However Maturana is keen to point out that there is no intrinsic…
The observer
An observer is any being who can be in language speaking with another ( or to himself) and making distinctions.