Greetings Robert, Sorry for the detour. I tend always to look for the big picture with not much interest in the details, or much patience either. In many situations it's a problem. I would make a terrible engineer. I promise to be quiet for a while and pay attention to your explorations.
Marsha At 03:52 PM 12/23/2007, you wrote: >Marha said in Dec.,21, quote: > >"Since experience is value, the most basic components of any >'experience' would seem to be intellectual, social, biological & >inorganic patterns of value (experience), and the code of art >level. This seems so obvious. Am I missing something?" > > Marsha, I don't think you are missing > something, only that you are a bit ahead of me. I might get there eventually. > > The key word here may be 'any'. If one is > talking of 'any experience', that is a higher > level of abstraction than talking of 'a' > (particular) experience. Let's say that in a > particular experience the components are > A,B,C,D, E, F etc. From that list we group A,C > and E into a class or type that we call > social, B and F as biological and so on. That > is, we impose a certain order to a random list > of components, by classifying them into > classes. That's why I say you are ahead of me; > I was thinking first merely at the level of > A,B,C. considered as mental states(and/or phenomenal states?). > > Instead of 'any' experience I'd like to > consider first a particular experience ( I have > a weakness for monographs) in this case 'a' > music experience, considered as a conscious, > perceptual experience. (Dainton's: Stream of > Consciousness, Unity and Continuity in Conscious Experience) > > Take, for instance, B for attention, D for > perception, E for acknowledgment; whether > attention is intellectual or biological is one > line of enquiry. Whether attention is a > component of experience and, if so, which role > does it play and how important this role might > be, is another line of enquiry (the one I > intended to pursue). Goes without saying that I > haven't set forth to rediscover the wheel, the > field has been well ploughed. As I said, I was just expounding. > >_________________________________________________________________ >Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! >http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ >Moq_Discuss mailing list >Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org >Archives: >http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ >http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
