Quote:
Originally posted by roachboy
...if you shift to a biological level to explain dreams, you run into problems that would be equivalent to trying to characterize the functioning of a given software package (what the package would present to you as a user sitting in front of your terminal) by detailing how the hardware operates--they are not unrelated, but it is really difficult to move from an account of the conditions of possiblilty for a platform to the modes that shape working within that platform.
|
This analogy makes me wonder if you're every read
Lila by Robert Pirsig. He makes a very similar analogy in order to discuss the merits of using a reductionistic argument to explain away higher level processes. Incidentally, I agree with your position here.
It seems that this thread is taking a turn towards discussion of relativistic philosophies versus absolute truths. That might be an interesting topic.