[Case] > Perception is a mental process of recording and organizing sensation into > our existing memories and models.
[Platt] "It is now, however, generally accepted that stored knowledge and assumptions actively affect even the simplest perceptions." -- "Oxford Companion to the Mind," p.601. [Case] Without access to the book you are looking at it sounds like that's what I said. [Platt] Pirsig would insist that entry should have included "values" as affecting perceptions. [Case] And in so doing he is mere substituting one set of words for another. [Platt] Even more astonishing, Pirsig claims that what we perceive, either by processing into existing memories and models or as affected by existing memories and models, are static patterns of value, plus DQ. [Case] How is this astonishing? Perception is the process of integrating what we have just sensed (DQ) with what we have experienced in the past (static patterns). And...? 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/
