Darren New wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Actually, though, "knowledge" comes in two ways, I think - first, 
>> through the act of learning, and secondly through an instinctive 
>> certainty. 
> 
> I think you're mistaken, except to the extent that instinctive certainty 
> gives you knowledge of instinctive processes. I'll grant you that you 
> can know you're hungry via "instinctive certainty", but not about how 
> the universe started.
> 
Not even that you are hungry. Some people never really are hungry, so 
what they say when describing starving is not the feeling of needing 
food, but of just not having a full stomach, which is *not* the same 
thing. By the same token, someone with say, Downs Syndrome, among other 
diseases, is **incapable** of feeling hungry, even when they are eating 
themselves to death. Even instinctive processes can be distorted by 
real/false knowledge, or misinterpreted to say something entirely 
different than what is really transpiring. What *I* might see as a flash 
of incite, from myself, a religious person might, due to their 
perception of events, as the hand of god handing them an answer. And, we 
could say, with fair certainty, that the later was simply wrong, if we 
caught the *event* using a brain scan. We can even presume that its 
wrong, because we do know how such things happen, and that there has 
never been a case of *visible* outside intervention, which requires 
explanations beyond how the brain processes information.

-- 
void main () {
   If Schrödingers_cat is alive or version > 98 {
     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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