Karl Popper said that '...all our observations are theory laden...'
and hence fallible. This fallibility applies to our theories as well.
David Deutsch ask us to consider the nerve signals reaching our
brains from our sense organs. Far from providing untainted access to
reality, they (nerve signals) are never experienced for what they really
are, namely crackles of electrical activity.
And we don't experience them for what they really - activity inside our brain.
Instead we place them in the reality beyond. 'The sky, up there' 'the pain in here'
'the stomach ache right here'. These events are within the brain itself.
Our sense organs are notoriously fallible.
and hence fallible. This fallibility applies to our theories as well.
David Deutsch ask us to consider the nerve signals reaching our
brains from our sense organs. Far from providing untainted access to
reality, they (nerve signals) are never experienced for what they really
are, namely crackles of electrical activity.
And we don't experience them for what they really - activity inside our brain.
Instead we place them in the reality beyond. 'The sky, up there' 'the pain in here'
'the stomach ache right here'. These events are within the brain itself.
Our sense organs are notoriously fallible.
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