On Sep 18, 2009, at 9:59 AM, Russ Abbott wrote:
And by the way, when I say one can't help but have an opinion about the color of the sky I'm really saying that one can't help but have an opinion about one's experience of seeing the sky. Certainly one can ask whether it even makes sense to say that the sky has a color, and if so how would one measure it, etc. That's not what I'm talking about. I'm saying that one can hardly help but have an opinion about having experienced the sky having a blue color when one looks at it. I don't know whether that clarifies things or not.
Now, this really is the heart of the matter. One certainly can experience without forming an opinion. Granted, that can take a lot of practice. But a world in which all phenomenon could only be appreciated through our learned, parochial biases would for me feel very fruitless and almost scary.
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