On 03/10/2014, at 00:55, Terence Love wrote:
> In essence, visual input is simply a map of colour responses at our retinas
> and into our systems.
>
> It is internally that we have learned to project and identify particular
> groupings of patterns as rocks, windows, and states such as whole or broken.
>
> None of these exist of themselves in essence in the environments outside
> ourselves. Instead, they are theory constructs held so close and so familiar
> inside us that we have become so used to them we falsely assume they are
> existential properties of our external environments.
Dear Terry,
I'm terribly divided: should I laugh or should I cry?
I think my eyes are bleeding from reading this.
I am appalled by this kind of commentary.
There is no possible way to continue this conversation, if you go down THAT path.
This conversation, or any other.
If all those are "theory constructs" that bear no relation to "existential properties of our external environments," then why can't you find a window that breaks a rock? Or a rock that throws you? Is it because "they are theory constructs held so close and so familiar inside us" ? Maybe rocks can walk and talk and throw windows at researchers. Only they do it at night, under the full moon every 200 years or so.
Actually, the aswer I was reading and assuming you wrote is probably a theory construct.
You probably didn't existentially replied, but only in theory.
Come to think of it... are you sure you exist?
Maybe you are a theory construct yourself.
Best regards,
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Carlos Pires
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