Re: virus: If you're watchin' IT ya' ain't a part of IT (was: David's top 10 (here and now))

Robin Faichney (robin@faichney.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 7 Oct 1998 20:37:20 +0100

In message <361B6F88.7493BEC5@ma.ultranet.com>, sodom
<Sodom@ma.ultranet.com> writes
>
>What I am suggesting is this: Just because you cannot personally have another
>persons feelings or visions or subjective experiences - in that you cannot put
>the thought with its emotions into your head, you can get very close. If
>anything, we can get a lot closer to experiencing anothers subjective state than
>we can objective reality - which like perfection, is completely unreachable with
>our existing hardware and software.

You're absolutely right, but you're arguing for
intersubjectivity, not objectivity.

I get the impression that some people around here
mistake subjectivity for solipsism.

-- 
Robin