Mark,
I presume by that you mean we can never directly perceive reality as
it actually is. I agree with that. What we do directly perceive is
our cognitive constructs of reality. That is our direct experience.
That is what Zen means when it says 'seeing illusion as illusion is
reality'.
Robert,
Well, I'm not sure what the point of your response below is but I'll
attempt to reply.
First consciousness, in the ordinary sense, does no processing of
visual information or anything else. That is all done by pre-
conscious mental mechanisms and only the end result is presented
Robert,
Watching whatever the contents of consciousness happen to be at the
moment is what is being watched.
The basic problem with your entire analysis is that it describes a
scientific, i.e. cognitive model, of the process by which experiences
arise to consciousness. That is this whole
