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what's "outside"?

Submitted by Paul Grobstein on Mon, 08/13/2007 - 1:46pm.
Interesting issue. I presume/use the "story" that there is an "outside", and it seems to be a pretty good one (ie one that makes sense of lots of observations and raises new questions) BUT ... all we know of the "outside" is an interpretation by the brain of patterns of action potentials that may arise from things "outside" or equally from spontaneous activity generated by the neurons themselves. Yep, there is probably an outside, but I don't know for sure. And know even less how it might be described/imagined by a nervous system different from my own.

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