Two questions. Your post seems relatively straightforward, so I'm not sure where you're coming from... coz we've talked about similar things before. That said:
"There is Objective Reality, which is what actually exists."
Why do you assume this? What evidence do you have?
(in fact, as you admit you don't know what it is... is your entire argument invalidated?)
Secondly, you seem to have created an artificial distinction between emotional/aesthetic reactions and internal models. Your last paragraph is a little unclear on this analysis.
For example... can you distinguish between your emotional reaction to a big black hairy spider and your internal model of it? They're both bound up together.
Your post is also lacking in cultural references. When you say 'the band is good' in English, I might say something entirely different in Irish, Arabic or e-prime. English lists and divides, categorises and labels. For example, the word 'debate' assumes _two_ sides. Our relatively rigid language necessarily dictates our responses too stimuli.
(for example, when you say the sculpture cannot contain humor, is that specific to English? Westerners? Humans?)
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"There is Objective Reality, which is what actually exists."
Why do you assume this? What evidence do you have?
(in fact, as you admit you don't know what it is... is your entire argument invalidated?)
Secondly, you seem to have created an artificial distinction between emotional/aesthetic reactions and internal models. Your last paragraph is a little unclear on this analysis.
For example... can you distinguish between your emotional reaction to a big black hairy spider and your internal model of it? They're both bound up together.
Your post is also lacking in cultural references. When you say 'the band is good' in English, I might say something entirely different in Irish, Arabic or e-prime. English lists and divides, categorises and labels. For example, the word 'debate' assumes _two_ sides. Our relatively rigid language necessarily dictates our responses too stimuli.
(for example, when you say the sculpture cannot contain humor, is that specific to English? Westerners? Humans?)