parsimony/biology

[Don McAllister]

Phil Bunch wrote:

> The distinction between a conceptualized "individual" and a process is
> crucial.  The human brain processes sensory information and organizes
> it into a model of the "outside" world.  In doing so it must simplify
> a very complex, ever changing array of events.  What we think of as a
> thing or individual is actually nothing but a process or set of
> processes.

This reminds me of the philosopher who was said to have proposed that all
direct sensation was an illusion. Still he lept up into the air when he
sat on a tack!

:-)

don
Don McAllister