Sunday, 4 June 2017

CONSC X 3 WORLDS

Karl Popper, the distinguished philosopher of science, and Sir John Eccles, the Nobel laureate in medicine (who I think is largely responsible for this work) have proposed a tri-aspect interactionism which distinguishes among three "worlds":

  • World 1 (of physical objects);
  • World 2 (of mental activity); and 
  • World 3 (of the abstract objects of thought, such as mathematical concepts, scientific theories, works of literature and music). 

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