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Old Oct 20, 2003, 11:23 pm   #14 (permalink) (top)
Geoff332
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Certainty acceptable to whom?

To you, obviously from your comments-- but that doesn't mean it's acceptable to anyone else.

As I have said, I don't dispute this when dealing with clearly material phenomena. But when you're dealing with phenomena that are less clearly material -- such as socio-political structures, ethics, aethetics, epistemology and (importantly for this discussion), consciousness.

When you make statements like "our consciousness is nothing more than a series of electric synapses" then I don't consider sensory information even close to an acceptable level of certainty.
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