Newsgroups: alt.consciousness,comp.ai,comp.ai.philosophy,sci.cognitive,sci.philosophy.meta,alt.philosophy.objective,sci.logic
Path: cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news2.harvard.edu!news4.ner.bbnplanet.net!news.ner.bbnplanet.net!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!ix.netcom.com!netcom.com!lpa
From: lpa@netcom.com (Pierre Asselin)
Subject: Re: The physical basis of consciousness
Message-ID: <lpaDoFBHu.78C@netcom.com>
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
References: <4i2a07$p7b@soap.news.pipex.net> <4icrk0$kdd@newsbf02.news.aol.com> <4iff5o$f8@crl6.crl.com>
Distribution: inet
Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 18:03:29 GMT
Lines: 16
Sender: lpa@netcom21.netcom.com
Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:37719 comp.ai.philosophy:38997 sci.cognitive:12178 sci.philosophy.meta:25728 sci.logic:17457

azi@crl.com (Walter Raisanen) writes:

>:   Of course, we are all aware (THAT word again) that eliminative
>: materialsts have confused data and theory in their thesis that data is
>: theory laden.

>What could this possibly mean?  Data is data, it speaks for itself.
>Theoreticians test theories with (guess what) data.

You need some theory to get the data, e.g. to calibrate the
instruments.

-- 
--Pierre Asselin, Westminster, Colorado
  lpa@netcom.com
  pa@verano.sba.ca.us
