Luc: re stereoscopic space and its cortical development: I'm not clear
regarding either our disagreement or the sigificance for experience of
phantom limb pain of stereoscopic space.
Geoff C
From: Luc Delannoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Expertise and aesthetic experience
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:03:59 -0700 (PDT)
Where is the experience? At the sensing level (which I believe is
no-epistemic), between sensing and perceiving, after perceiving? Is it the
result of a gestalt module in the brain? Is it a cognitive event? Is this
cogniive event always conscious? If it is, then, there is a cognitive
deficit
b experiencing the experienceb since we do not perceive all what we sense.
Cortical color is sensed in the brain; how do we translate that into words?
Reading William last post, English philosopher Edmond Wright came to my
mind.
He wrote: b the public word does not capture all the private sensation.
(b&)
What is implicit for each cannot all be explicit for both.b I couldnbt
agree more. So, this is why we must deposit our trust in the Other.
And since I am quoting Wright, allow me to get back to the difference we
seem
to have Geoff and myself about the famous phantom limb. b The phenomenon of
stereoscopic space, which is itself a cortically produced feature, is what
allows the development of a judgement of external space, but the same
applies
in that external space and phenomenal space have no qualitative
resemblance.b
Luc
William wrote:
> Most philosophers say that whatever the aesthetic
> "experience" is, it cannot be fully explicated
> because to do that is to describe it in terms separate from
> the experience. Experience is a flow, a continuum, always
> mixed with a variety of feelings and memories in addition to
> the moment at hand. How is it possible to isolate "an
> experience" except in vague summary? Thus I think the
> aesthetic experience, a faulty term, is ineffable. In fact,
> I suspect we could say the same about any sort of experience
> whatsoever. We need to use a language to reconstruct the
> presumed experience and that has its own experiental or even
> aesthetic evocative and therefore constructive aspects. In
> short, the word we use to describe our experience is also an
> experience and thus has its own defining impact.
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