Re: Quantum Physics

[Howard Pattee <***>]

At 07:57 AM 1/20/05 -0800, Steve wrote:
> SJ: Our understanding of *anything*
> depends on what is
> in our mind. One of the main points of Rosen's
> approach is that we cannot make any assetions about
> how things *really* are we can only build models. 

Rosen was not the originator of this idea.

Hippocrates (400 BC) "Men ought to know that from
nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and
sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations. And by this, in an
especial manner, we acquire wisdom and knowledge, and see and hear, and
know what are foul and what are fair, what are bad and what are good,
what are sweet, and what unsavory; some we discriminate by habit, and
some we perceive by their utility. By this we distinguish objects of
relish and disrelish, according to the seasons; and the same things do
not always please us. And by the same organ we become mad and delirious,
and fears and terrors assail us, some by night, and some by day, and
dreams and untimely wanderings, and cares that are not suitable, and
ignorance of present circumstances, desuetude, and unskilfulness. All
these things we endure from the brain . . ."   

Howard