Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 12:06:10 +1100 From: hbone <hbone-AT-optonline.net> Subject: Re: the fragility of reality Eric/All, I'll answer your other messages later, but here's an almost "im-mediate" response. You wrote, >I am really somewhat incredulous of Hugh's claims that experience gives us >a direct unmediated apprehension of reality. As one who studies Freud, I'm sure you know how greatly persons differ in their senses, feelings and thoughts. True, we can see for the blind, hear for the deaf, convey information that is not directly experienced. With those handicaps, those persons cannot know the reality of hearing and seeing, but get a second-party, mediated, version of events they cannot witness. As individuals, we have different acuity of perception via each of our five senses. Part of the difference is physical, part is learned. Wine tasters and artists are more sensitive to flavors and colors than most people. Years of experience increase their proficiency. Each organism (to some degree) perceives the same object differently because of personal history, especially we old and decrepit campers. - You are what you do and you are your encoded memories. You are your personal history. That's my opinion, and you have yours. For me, this means plural realities. The fragility and multiplicity of reality is partly due to a potentially changing object, but also to the history of the one who perceives it. You are incredulous of first-person un-mediated apprehension of reality. I am incredulous of your (seeming) preference for realities mediated by others. Hugh
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