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Originally Posted by Jens
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.
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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.