Since the mental images we create from ocular receptions are indeed created from various cells and neurons and somehow brought to consciousness, everything we see is in a continual flux of being imagined; ditto for remembered or fantasy images. I'm quite sure the jury has come in with the verdict that seeing is a constructive act, not the Cartesian reception image. wc
----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wed, October 13, 2010 4:00:27 PM Subject: Re: challenge In a message dated 10/13/10 1:01:40 AM, [email protected] writes: > My notion about yesterday's gardenia is never the same > In my argument for believing all notion is indeterminate, indefinite, multiplex and transitory, I asked the reader to summon up a mental picture of an ocean wave. I claimed that if in ten minutes I asked you to do it again, you would summon up a similar-looking wave, but it would not be identical in all visible regards. More recently I argued that there's no need to wait ten minutes: Try keeping fixed the initial wave in your mind's eye; you can't do it, I claimed; it morphs even as you're "staring" at it. (This is in part because your attention ranges over various parts of that notional wave.) Alas, my claim is based exclusively on my own experience. But in truth I can't know that all other minds' eyes are just like mine. I'm a poor visualizer. And I make the paradoxically egotistic assumption all other minds' eyes are as inferior as mine.
