Human Consciousness: stimuli, analog to digital (Humans)

by dhw, Wednesday, September 14, 2016, 12:31 (2994 days ago) @ David Turell

Dhw: I thought your focus on the automaticity of cell response required a very conscious response from me! It also tied in rather neatly with our dispute over your claim to be an empiricist!-DAVID: By his definitions I'm much more an empiricist than a realist, since he offered only two classes of thought.-Ah well, here are the definitions:-"In philosophical terms, “anti-realists” or “empiricists” understand science as investigating the properties of observable objects via experiments. Empirical theories are constrained by the experimental results. “Realists,” on the other hand, speculate more freely about the possible shape of the unobservable world, often designing mathematical explanations that cannot (yet) be tested.”-I would have thought that belief in a God who created the universe in order to produce humans, who designed the weaverbird's nest, and who hides behind a quantum wall, constituted untested and indeed untestable speculation rather than investigation of observable objects by experimentation, but whaddoIknow?