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#214 – Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science
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Can We Know Reality?
Can we comprehend reality? Sounds like a very trippy question. A lot of it rests on definitions of know and comprehend and reality but get to the bottom of it. Well, let's say hello. Maybe I can put it to you this way: If I were a dragonfly looking at you, whatever my nervous system would form by way of a perceptual structure would is clearly be utterly different from what my brain and perceptual system altogether is forming when I look at you. Who's right? Is it me or the dragonfly? Well, the dragonfly is certainly very impressive.
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