For example:
What if you listened to a song, only sung once, and never heard again. The only way that you "hear" the song is from memory. And then you die....
The fact that the song "existed" is strange. A million years from now, that song is possible, but not probable, but yet it exists. It doesn't occupy space, or have any matter.
Here's another example, but maybe more feasible: A math formula, or a plot for a story, that never left a person's mind (100 years ago). It actually existed, but no way of proving it or even knowing about it.
Weird eh?
2007-02-10 09:31:08 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
That is what them thar epistemologists talks about. Fer example, social facts are objective, yet dependent upon beliefs of the community for their existence. Laws, the value of a dollar, propety lines, the contents of carrot cake, etc. They are facts outside physical verification. Memories are too, especially personal memories. And when you get a headache, it is not verifiable by any instrument or third party, yet true.
2007-02-10 09:45:23 · answer #1 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It never actually existed - the song, the memory of the song, the math formula, the story plot, the person's mind - it's inexpressible and pretty cool.
2007-02-10 09:36:41 · answer #2 · answered by shrill alarmist, I'm sure 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A song is sound to used to represent an abstract idea, it would be hard to prove that a series of sounds had meaning to them.
2007-02-10 10:04:39 · answer #3 · answered by jetthrustpy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good element you're making sir. even however, many of the stuff theists declare can purely be the artwork of god, has already been defined by using medical approach, such because of the fact the form of the human strategies, thoughts, song, etcetera. I doubt maximum theists have the perception to pay interest, besides.
2016-10-01 22:33:59 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And it still exists in my opinion just not being talked or thought about. It's a similar conundrum to 'Did we discover or invent science?'
2007-02-10 09:37:12 · answer #5 · answered by FIZZYMIA 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Electrical existence without physical manifestation.
2007-02-10 09:33:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The mind is a mysterious thing. I don't think this goes into religious territory.
2007-02-10 09:37:37 · answer #7 · answered by citrus punch 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Consciousness is not yet explained by science. This is the new frontier, the most important question we have.
2007-02-10 09:34:14 · answer #8 · answered by neil s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
creepy
2007-02-10 09:35:00 · answer #9 · answered by Atheist Eye Candy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes that is kind of weird
2007-02-10 09:51:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋