On Jun 13, 2009, at 8:14 PM, William Conger wrote:
Ok, but I don't think we can think in non-human ways, ways that require a different type of brain. Even the sci-fi writers need to be happy with stretching the limits of what we are. We don't have alternatives to our anatomy. We can't be dogs or dolphins even if we do share a lot. We don't know their metaphors.
This is a thought experiment. I just asked you to imagine perceiving those other things. Of course it seems sci-fi, but that is just a stage trick to expose how regular perceptions work. We usually do not give any of our attention to the multiple skeins that form our perceptions. They're almost invisible to our attention, until you pay close attention to them or, as here, just imagine a new kind of perception.
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