From: J <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2018 2:06 PM To: Noam Chomsky Subject: Re: what i am suggesting is that what the term cult=re means is the same as what consciousness means. =C2 culture can be describes as russell did for consciousness. =C2 the physics and math envy habit of trying to measu=e things . we experience culture, it is stubborn, =C2 transmitted, localized. contains memories. boundaries. =C2 dictum. . it manifests itself in different w=ys but doesn't have a separate existence. =AO it is like consiousness a human construct. no m=re no less. btw, is a mediation date and tim= set. yet? vincent papers were good except for the=amount to settle. On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 8:56 AM Noam Chomsky < > wrote: =rom the point of view of a jihadi, Klan, evangelical Christian, my ultra-o=thodox grandfather, it's the rest of the world that's crazy.=C2 I think we can do better than just to take the fall-back position th=t craziness is a value judgment, but not so easy. On co=sciousness, my suspicion is that we'll never do much better than Russe=l's picture: what we understand with highest confidence is our own imm=diate conscious experience. The rest of our intellectual efforts (sc=ence especially) are an attempt to make sense of that (and in the course o= doing so, instructs us that our experience is a construct of our internal=modes of cognition acting on an external world that we (naively?) assume t= exist. And it also tells us, I think, that consciousness is a thin =nd superficial fringe of an internal mental life that is inaccessible to i=trospection. On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 11:39 AM J <[email protected]</=» wrote: cultures swept by craziness, isnt it=the same for an individual. .. the brain sends signals based =n faulty sensors or information. . to see if the brain i= functioning. there are word tests. memory tests. etc.=C2 . why isnt conciousness the property of those thin=s. like culture is to fads etc. <=i