[Ron] Typically when we use the term illusion often we conceptualize it as a hallucination. Something that does not exist. This is not so.
[Krimel] I raised this very issue with Dan a year or so ago. I had long understood Maya to mean illusion in the sense of hallucination or mirage. But I do think the understanding of illusion as shifting perception is much more useful. The process of seeing an illusion involves a radical shift in perception. This is called a Gestalt shift. Even in simple figure ground illusions the shift itself is a bit like a mini-religious experience where our understanding is altered and a new understand springs forth. It is interesting to note that when this happens we "shift' from on set of perceptions to another almost instantly. We don't lose the ability to see the former set in that we can "shift" back into it. But it is very difficult to hold on to both sets of perceptions at the same time. This also illustrates the difference between sensation and perception. If you look at a figure ground illusion, for example the famous wine glass or faces illusion, you can see faces or a wine glass. But either faces or wine glass are objects of perception. The sensations which give rise to them are the same, it is how we interpret the sensations that gives rise to the illusion. Perception arises through experience with sensation. 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/
