Originally posted by buddhasystemWhat nonsense. In the past, wealthy merchants could engage in intercontinental trade without serving as
sailors on the ships that would bring spices from India to Europe. They understood commerce without having experienced the logistics in its gritty
detail. We have plenty of understanding of subatomic particles even without having the ability to actually "experience" them. People understand that
it's wrong to give a loaded gun to a kid, even when they never experienced the sight of some kid accidentally blowing off his head.
Ok, so they understand the concept of commerce, but they didn't understand what it was like being a deck hand on one of those ships. I'm sure they
knew it was hard, back-breaking labour, but they didn't experience hard, back-breaking labour.
Yeah you understand its wrong to give the kid a loaded gun, but you don't understand what its like to be shot in the head.
You understand the concept of an X-Ray, but you can't feel the X-Ray.
Deaf people who learn to speak use the experience of vibrations to train their vocal chords. They don't experience sound as we do, but they still
experience the sound. They couldn't learn if they were told to read a manual which said something like "Push air out through your throat while
shaping your vocal chords in a certain shape resulting in a 30hz frequency being emitted from the mouth" (Please don't knit-pick my terminology I
don't know what frequency the human voice is nor the intricacies of how sound is produced, but you get the general idea).
Need I go on?
