richa6 May 2004

'I'm not really sure what you mean by "using language to match the physical"'

What I mean is for something happens at the information processing level, the best we can do to describe it is to invent terms such as neurotransmitter and firing (language).

Something happens in the brain, we call it firing. But the modes of 'event' and 'language describing event' are different. It is a metaphysical gap (something like that).

If there was a way to put 'event' down on paper. Both science and poetry, which both make representations of the world would be obsolete.