From: Eugene Leitl (Eugene.Leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Wed Dec 04 1996 - 12:41:11 MST
On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Eric Watt Forste wrote:
[...]
> Also, your talk of The Meaning of Life makes me uncomfortable. Life
> has many meanings, and I don't think they can all really be reduced
There is no meaning in "meaning", outside of the anthropic context. Imo,
there is no sense in lumping the interpretation, which is a property of
the observer, together with the interpreted object. (Does a tree make a
sound?). So interpretation ("meaning") would be an observer-dependent
property of the observer-phenomenon system. All we could hope for would be
darwinian-evolution-artefacted (funny... I seem to be suffering from an
acute fit of deja vu...) consensus, which is a property of the observers,
not the observed. Of course things are muddied, if observer observe other
observers, particularly from an independently fabricated batch of 'em ;)
[...]
'gene
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