On Aug 11, 4:46 pm, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > > Right. As I said, perception is constructive, not passive.
True, but 'we' aren't the ones doing the constructively. Something like visual sense is presented to us so that we receive it passively, even though on the visual level images are being resolved actively and on the associative level it is being recognized actively. The part of the psyche that is 'us', has a narrow band of meta-perceptual conflicts to resolve - ie, which streams of sensorimotive phenomena to pay attention to, which ones to try to alter, pursue, etc. We may be no more special than any other subjective body within the psyche but we are in the executive position over the efferent nerves of the entire body, and therefore have political significance if nothing else, compared to a subordinate entity such as our visual processing or hormone secreting neighbors. Craig -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
