Subject: RE: Crucial Questions on Life
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 17:50:56 


isn't it more strange that someone would post a simplistic philosophical 
"point"

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>From: Leonel Requena <lrequena-AT-ssdnet.com.ar>
>Reply-To: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: bourdieu-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: RE: Crucial Questions on Life
>Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2001 20:49:19 -0300
>
>
>
>Think about this:
>
>You do not feel the glass (or a copy of it -- transformed in a feeling 
>--)in your brain but at your finger tips (make the experience!), so that 
>what arrives at the brain is the "perception" of the sensation at the 
>finger tips (or the consciousness of that perception).
>Kind regards.
>Leonel
>
>     Berk Turkcan wrote:
>     6. When a person sees a glass of water, in fact he does not see its 
>real form
>     but only a copy of it in his brain. The coldness that he feels when 
>touching
>     the glass surface is not the real coldness of the glass but only a 
>copy of it.
>     This means nobody is ever able to feel that he touches the real glass. 
>Since
>     it is not his fingers that feel the sense of touch, but merely the 
>sense of touch
>     in the brain. Should we not in this case conclude that people are 
>never able
>     to reach the reality of objects and can never touch the reality of a 
>glass? But
>     not every person knows this fact. Everyone thinks they touch and see 
>real objects.
>     Is it not strange that people are not aware of this and they never 
>think about
>     this?
>


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