@paulhanke,
paulhanke;126860 wrote:... it almost seems that this would have to be the case - else "fallibility" would only be a remote possibility, would it not? ...
well yes, IF you find idealism convincing in itself that is. AND/OR you recognise that science has shown that human sensory perception has given us a false picture of reality. eg we cannot percieve 4d spacetime. So therefore our fallibility is largely explained by our nature.
There are it seems to me the
possibility of 'mixed' scenarios.
Suppose there were creatures that had brains very similar to ours, but lived in an environment where time dilation and other gravitational spacetime effects were prevalant. Is it not possible that even with the limitation of our brains and senses that they could develope conceptual instinctive models of space time such that they could for example hunt successfully in such an environment? A bit like the fish spearer who learns to compensate for the way light bends in water and places the fish in a different place to where it actually is.
In other words the reason why we think classically and seperate space from time and don't account for atomic behaviour is not because our brains are classical and inadequate, but precisely because classical IS adequate enough to survive and create. Why develope non classical thinking and modelling, even in a mind capable of doing it, if it is superfluous to its environment?
But also, there may be varying degrees between classical and non classical information. Just because we don't have a complete internal external 4d clone of a coffee cup in our minds, does not necessarily imply that there isn't some non classical aspects to our relationship with the reality of it. It may be that the image you have of the room you are in at the moment, though non classically incomplete, may still be beyond classical modelling.
After all. Idealism still has a very difficult consequence
from its own claim to the nature of reality. The room you now see is entirely in your head!! Step outside on a starry night and the 'representation' becomes immense!
So. Solipsism? I don't think so. The age old debate between naive realism and idealism can conceivably be resolved by using info realism....... Not to mention other contentious philosophical and profound scientific implications.