Marsha --
I gave you a definition of "experience" to consider for dialectic purposes,
and you respond with a statement of what experience DOES: "Experience
creates reality."
I answered your question as to what my problem is with "the totality of the
cognitions
given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered" as a
definition for experience....
The "problem" is one of communication and understanding.
The distinction I'm trying to draw here is between descriptive prose and
dialectic principles.
Clearly experience is a hollow concept without content. Only when there is
something perceivable can we have experience of it. That "something" must
be the object of experience. I said before that "we know that being exists
only because we are aware of it." Being in existence takes the form of a
sensible (cognizant, knowing) agent having awareness of an other. I didn't
want to get descriptive here because it defeats the purpose of this
fundamental approach. But, technically, awareness is "sensibility" which
infers both a sentient subject and an object.
Being-aware is a dichotomy in that being does not exist without awareness.
Therefore, awareness does not "create" existence. What you call
"experience" is the resultant product of being-aware. It's the "knowing
self-aware-of otherness". The essence of this otherness, its form and
properties, is "experiential", but that is a complex process involving
intellection, identification, conceptualization, and valuation, all of which
belong to an epistemology that is beyond the scope of my present definition.
For the sake of clarity and understanding, I prefer to stay with the
fundamentals at this juncture. Being-aware is the simplest definition I can
offer for experience. I'm not discussing creation or epistemology here; I
only proceed if we can agree that being-aware defines experience.
Otherwise, please cite your objections to this fundamental definition.
Regards,
Ham
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