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Old 04-June-2007, 03:37 PM
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I'm not sure how that impact on Ken's last statement. But we certainly should not start out with our perception of a moving picture, and assume from the reality that is presented, without looking at the process behind it.
That's it exactly. Our goal is to make sense of what we see so that it works for us, and we can watch a movie. But we don't think it is 'paradoxical' if we later discover inaccuracies in the way we formed our picture-- we study the mechanism and build deeper pictures of what is going on that work on more levels. The approach Zeno is using is contrary to the way we do science-- it reverses the order of the logic. If Zeno came to see a modern movie, would he find it "paradoxical" that the objects "knew" where to go, even though each frame was just a static image? It's all a question of probing the mechanism that allows them to move-- in this case, the rules of how the movie gets made. Maybe he was just trying to say there is more going on than we understand-- that would indeed be an admirable and scientific recognition.
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