Psy-Kosh: let’s Taboo “exist” then… What does it exactly mean? For me, it’s something like “I have some experiences, whose cause is best modeled by imagining some discrete object in the outer world”. The existence or non-existence of something affects what I will feel next.
Some further expansions:
“why”: how can I predict one experience from another?
“world”: all the experiences we have? (Modeled as a discrete object… But I can’t really imagine what can be modeled by the fact that there is no world.)
So the question “why does our world exist” becomes something like “what is the experience from which we can predict we will have any experiences at all… Sounds a little bit more controversial than the original.
By the way, have we tried this transformation in the opposite direction? Turning the question “what is the sound of blue” to one which seems to make sense...
Psy-Kosh: let’s Taboo “exist” then… What does it exactly mean? For me, it’s something like “I have some experiences, whose cause is best modeled by imagining some discrete object in the outer world”. The existence or non-existence of something affects what I will feel next.
Some further expansions: “why”: how can I predict one experience from another? “world”: all the experiences we have? (Modeled as a discrete object… But I can’t really imagine what can be modeled by the fact that there is no world.)
So the question “why does our world exist” becomes something like “what is the experience from which we can predict we will have any experiences at all… Sounds a little bit more controversial than the original.
By the way, have we tried this transformation in the opposite direction? Turning the question “what is the sound of blue” to one which seems to make sense...