Mando writes: > I would conclude that the object is always altering the mind. > I would think that every new experience transform it a little. > You wouldn't say it alters any mind that doesn't observe the object. Alteration requires the receipt of sense data, followed by the mind's processing.
It's understandable that we talk that way: "Michelangelo's 'Moses" changed my life." But the 'Moses" is inert. It does not act, it does nothing. "Contemplating the 'Moses' changed my life," is more like it. > Mando's second line hits it: "Every new experience transforms the mind a > little." It's the experience, what goes on in the head -- not the object that > occasions the experience. ************** It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your travel deal here. (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047)
