From: nospam@example.net   
      
   On Wed, 10 Jul 2024, Richmond wrote:   
      
   > This all became quite confusing quite quickly, but I was not able to   
   > read the first post in the thread. I have now found it here:   
   >   
   > https://alt.philosophy.narkive.com/WardN2rr/ai-students-and-epistemic-crisis   
   >   
   > and it points to this article:   
   >   
   > https://miniver.blogspot.com/2024/07/ai-students-and-epistemic-crisis.html   
   >   
   > My first thought is that anyone who litters their speech with the word   
   > 'like' in this way shouldn't be teaching students.   
   >   
   > But leaving that aside, the context is rather different from the shared   
   > physical reality.   
   >   
   > But anyway, I am going to waffle on about neither of those things, but   
   > instead about the shared reality which is not physical. Because   
   > everything that human beings experience through the senses has to come   
   > through some mental processing before it reaches consciousness. This   
   > means that reality is both shared, and subjective. And it also means   
   > that reality includes content which comes from the unconscious, but does   
   > not originate in the physical world. This is as real as anything else in   
   > its impact on us.   
   >   
      
   But do note, that even in the case of the unconscious, the content comes   
   from the physical world, since we are beings in the physical world,   
   consisting of matter.   
      
   So that doesn't work either unless you're a dualist, which also flies in   
   the face of physicalism/materialism.   
      
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