Quote: if the environment is only known through brain states, how can it be known objectively and accurately?

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Descartes' doctrine [of Corporeal Ideas], stated very generally, is that … to say today, states of the brain. In … limited to the physical (or bodily) output of … variables (e.g., intensity and wavelengths of light) [refs]. The question that this doctrine poses has been at the … accurately and acted upon successfully when the ideas … [p. 379] Whether dressed in its traditional or modern … a profound predicament. There is nothing in this … that are objective and accurate rather than fatuous. …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: Descartes' doctrine of Corporeal Ideas--all awareness's are awareness's of states of the body

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