Disclaimer: The following is not my own, they are Rueben Ables' from "Man is the Measure":
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. "There is no innocent eye" Nietzsche called this "the fallacy of the immaculate perception" in order for you to perceive something, you must add to your sense datum you must furnish an element of projection." Any one interpretation excludes all others. All attempts to isolate human nature assume there must be Some entity there to be isolated. But the fact is that the human Not shaped by a particular culture, as anthropology reveals, has Never existed. Human behavior is everywhere channeled by society. Homo sapiens has never responded to a stimulus except through The intervening variable of a culture. "My culture tells me when to have An appetite for what" writes anthropologist Dorothy Lee. Trying to separate human nature from culture is like trying to Separate the physical subatomic particle from the field Primitive people are imprisoned, just as we are, in a Universe of disclosure- a language game or form of life Or paradigm, which it is argued, cannot criticize itself Because it provides the only tools of criticism. Gestalt psychologists stress how we tend to perceive well defined patterns and wholes which are not really there, by integrating heterogeneous cues and filling in contours." 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/
