[Ron]
> I had the chance to get to the book store last
> Friday, I picked up
> relativity theory by Whitehead, Pragmatism by James
> and Man is the
> Measure by Reuben Abel which is what I started
> reading first, It is
> "a cordial invitation to the central problems of
> philosophy"
> In it Abel confirms my suspicion that cutting edge
> experience
> is just as much a product of prior recognition of
> associated
> patterns :
> "visual perception is discontinuous, seeing consists
> physically
> of separate glances, each lasting about a quarter of
> a second.
> (the world may disapear in the intervals and we
> would never know it)
> The brain pieces together these distinct stimuli to
> constuct an image
> of a stable and continuous world."
> " What enters the eye is not really seen until it is
> organized by the
> brain.
> To see what is the case requires context, inference,
> concepts,
> experience, interpretation."
> he goes on to say:
> " The selective nature of perception is also a
> consequence of the
> fact that the number of sensory stimuli, or possible
> messages from
> outside, is greater than we can receive and process.
> The channels
> of communication to us are crowded and noisey; we
> must filter
> stimuli. What we receive is usually what we expect,
> or want, or
> believe, or are used to. Our eyes and brains
> coordinate how objects
> look at different distances, from different
> directions, and
> under different light, and show us an object to
> which we attribute
> a constant size, shape, and color. To percieve is to
> solve a problem.
> Our capacity "to find strands of permanence in the
> tumult of changing
> appearences" (Polanyi) has survival value. Gestalt
> psychologists stress
> how we tend to percieve well defined patterns and
> wholes which are not
> really there, by integrating heterogeneous cues and
> filling in
> contours."
> Pirsig has termed this as undifferentited
> experience, I'm really not
> sure if
> there is such a thing.
Ant was covering much of what you are saying in
recent posts. He hasn't just jumped in, but
anyways... Your exactly right! We do shape our
pre-intellectual values with static patterns. What we
incorporate pre-intellectually is influenced by
intellectual patterns (ex. what we already know),
social patterns (ex. this culture as opposed to
constantly hunting we go to the store), biological
patterns (ex. I don't see or sense heat as a snake
does), and inorganic patterns (ex. I'm not the sun).
Now, how do you learn? Where does it come from? Is
there creativity? All of what you said above, I
believe, doesn't mention or answer any of these
questions, the topics above just cover that what we
know already dictates our experience, thus, we don't
learn anything new, correct?
blue evening,
SA
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