[FRIAM] On old question

[glen]

On the contrary, the question can ONLY be answered by pointing at something. Your abstracted, essentialist, linguistic tendencies will fail us every time. I think I've mentioned Luc Steels' language games before. And you seem to be fond of semiotics. So why isn't the question best answered by pointing?

Playing along though, if the experience evoked by a model is good enough to trigger a similar enough physiological response to that evoked by reality, then the model passes for reality. I.e. if the effect is the same, then the cause is equivalent.


On October 24, 2018 8:08:01 PM PDT, Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
>Glen, 
>
>Interesting website ... .  But the question can't be answered by
>pointing at something.  I meant to ask the question, "What are the
>properties of something you would call real?"   
>
>Nick 
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glen