At 01:37 PM 9/25/2008, you wrote:
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."
No, Ham. Experience is reality, it creates subject and object.
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.
There are six senses: sight, hearing, touch, smell, taste and
mind. Perceptual awareness may be of a mental pattern. These six
senses of perception seem to cover everything.
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.
You've offered the wrong definition. For me and the sake of clarity,
the fundamentals are experience is reality, and it is experience that
creates subject and object.
Marsha
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Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.........
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