[lbo-talk] A Crisis of Neo-liberalism or a Crisis of Captialism?" by Christopher Carrico

[// ravi]

On Dec 14, 2011, at 10:00 AM, // ravi wrote:
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> I am not sure I understand the above. Substituting “ideas” for “mental structures” (as you suggest above), I get the following: [mental] ideas reflect the structure of the physical (and social) world. This is so because ideas reside or emerge from our brain, books, etc.
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> But brains and books are different, no? Brains are internal to the cognitive system (the human being) and the physical basis of mental activity which attempts to process and make sense of the external world of books, cultural products, etc. If our head comes pre-equipped with some sort of “cognitive framework”, how do we construct one “out of nothing”, and one that seems to mirror the structures of the physical world?
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Ack. That last line should be: “If your head DOES NOT come pre-equipped with ….”. Sorry.

	—ravi