Hi Keith,
It's instructive in terms of this somewhat circular debate that you might
well have been deluded about her actual cognitive states at the time.
After all, she was equally likely to simply be not paying attention to
traffic, and have the music too loud to hear, as to be "deluded into
thinking she was in a private sensory world where music was the guide and
pleasure was the journey".
Are you sure you weren't simply deluded yourself about her delusion?
...And are you sure that anthorpomorphising spiders will help? ;^)
Terence, how might you nail down this girl's state of mind when she mightn't
even be self-aware enough to know her own intentions sufficiently to
validate your appraisal phenomenologically? (...leaving you standing bereft
on a street corner in Skinnerville, lever in one hand, cheese in the
other...)
All that this debate shows so far is that people tell divergent stories to
explain their responses to perceptions. We thus moved onto epistemic turf
some time ago, yet where are the actual, real-life epistemologists? Ahh,
designers waffling on about areas out of their pay grade again ;^) Fun, but
perhaps circular.
(I'm just as bad, btw; I have a lengthy response pending to Terence
above...)
Cheers,
Adam
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