Emergence - Part 2A of ?

The unique challenge language confronts us with during paradigm shifts.

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• Paradigm
• shift
• Emergence
• emergent
• property
• consciousness
• mind
• brain

[0ThouArtThat0]

While I would agree it is "more" correct to say the objective world is really something produced inside your skull, I think it is important to take the evolutionary history of what is in that skull into consideration. The reason all of us humans typically agree so well about empirical data is that we share a genetic history of structural coupling with an environment. This is related to what Thomas said in his response, that somehow intersubjectivity is prior to individual subjectivity.

[SpiritualAtheist]

I'm pretty sure I disagree with you here. But let me think about it so I can give you a coherent response.

[Censeo]

I realize that light isn't objectively bright. It has become bright because it is everywhere and has therefore become a good medium for life to start experience in some way and that way just arbitrary became the sensation of brightness. I have a harder time understanding distance, size and shape as symbols of what objectively stands for something else though. Why does one star appear to be 3 light years further away than another one? What does this symbolize? difference in ability to reach?

[0ThouArtThat0]

It's a point I am still trying to figure out how to express myself. So if you need clarification, don't hesitate to ask.

[0ThouArtThat0]

We know what we know about the world not as isolated subjects, but as species co-creating a shared environment/niche. These environments/niches are not out there waiting for us to "fit" into them, as the standard Darwinian story presumes, but rather enacted by we as social organisms. We conscious beings, together, play an active role in constructing the world we live in.