3am musings (Humans)

by Balance_Maintained , U.S.A., Wednesday, September 07, 2011, 19:14 (4625 days ago) @ David Turell

I think you are painting this with too broad a brush stroke. One can be a non-believer and still appreciate music, art, love, math, philosophy, science, etc. Language, color, sound, I'm not sure.
> -Perhaps, but you have to believe that the vibrations your ears are detecting are sounds, and that those sounds are arranged in a meaningful way in order to appreciate music or speech. You have to believe that the wavelengths of light that your eyes detect are colors and that these colors are arranged in a pleasing or meaningful way in order to appreciate art. You have to believe that numerical symbols have intrinsic meaning in order for math to mean anything at all. The only real thing that is independent of belief that I could come up with is motion, and as I said, the Uncertainty principal even casts that into doubt. In essence, every external sensation that we experience is motion, and all of that motion is interpreted via our brains into something meaningful. In order for it to be meaningful, it must be believed in. You must have faith that what your senses are telling you is not only real, but that the patterns they detect are of some value in one form or another.