On 9/21/2013 6:36 PM, Chris de Morsella wrote:
In fact the chair the mind sees is quite often a low fidelity rendition of the chair --
with by far most sense data discarded along the way, especially if it is on the
periphery of the mind's current focus. The "chair", in the mind, is rendered only as
well as it need be in order for the mind to experience it's 3d frame of reference and
the world aligned around it in a manner with the best evolutionary fitness. The chair
the mind "sees" is subject to the mind's current needs and the chair's relative
centrality with respect to those shifting priorities. The mind is a most masterful
reification engine.
Because the mind is so involved in constructing the "chair" or at least our perception
of it -- in any given moment -- and is involved at every step along the way of
rendition, it must have a pretty vast inventory of "chair" models (and all the
underlying abstract modeling such as edge rendering, shape skinning/coloring etc. that
are required in order to render the chair) in its repertoire. And the chair we see is
always the indirect rendition presented to us by our minds; our minds are always
manufacturing the reality we perceive. Try to set the mind aside; it is harder than it
sounds. The mind is always filtering our experienced reality as actual reality impinges
on us and interacts with our own inner selves to generate our own individual
perception... or esthetic.
I agree. It takes effort and practice to see a chair not as a chair but as patches of
light and color as you do if you're making a painting of a chair. And if it's not
important to you, your brain may just note "chair" with almost no specifics at all. But
this degree of specificity isn't so different in a dream or in imagination where a chair
may considered in detail (e.g. if you're designing a chair) or very sketchily if it's just
background furniture.
Brent
Thus a vision of the chair should be able to be generated in a subject's mind by a
proper stimulation of critical brain areas (obviously would need to be a lot more fine
grained than anything we can do with our current crude tool set... and perhaps it is a
good thing too -- IMO -- for re-writing memory, opens all kind of scary Orwellian doors)
-Chris
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On 9/21/2013 9:18 AM, Bruno Marchal wrote:
No, memories I consider direct experiences, since they require only
that we are
conscious. Indirect experiences would be experiences which we can only
detect
using our body's sense organs. Indirect experiences are 3p, thus they
are bodies
in space, direct experiences are 1p, so they can contain any
combination of
imagined forms, thoughts, feelings, etc.
That is not enough clear for me. I can't figure out what you mean by
indirect
experience. I guess you mean experience (1p) occurring when you think about
a theory
(like there is something on the other side of the moon). That kind of
things can mix
a lot first and first person plural aspects.
Keep also in mind that 'bodies in space' are first person plural notion,
they are
not 3p.
No he means 'indirect' because you could experience the same vision by having your optic
nerve properly stimulated. So when you 'see a chair' that is indirect - it is an
interpretation of what your optic nerve is doing.
Brent
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