AM de Lange writes:
> Perhaps I must first describe how I understand perception. I distinguish
> between the "world inside me" (WIM) and the "world outside me" (WOM)
> because I experience these two worlds differently. At first I merely
> become aware (conscious) of the WOM through my senses - a raw experience.
> As soon as this happens I try to make tacitly some sense out of that raw
> experience by connecting it to something in the WIM. Then the third phase
> follows in which I try to express this sense in a way which is sensible to
> some other people. It ends in the the fourth phase when I succeed in
> making it sensible to most other people. All four these phases together,
> originally initiated by the WOM, I consider as perception. In other words,
> perception is for me externally initiated learning and knowledge as its
> product.
Fascinating; it seems that other people are necessary for you to perceive?
You've written of your experiences alone in the desert; did you perceive
anything during those experiences, or did your perceptions only complete
when you returned to share them with others?
>From another perspective: does perception go on when exercising
unconscious competence, e.g., riding a bicycle? Certainly the rider
reacts to sensory inputs to stay upright and avoid hitting things, but it
sounds like this is at a lower level than what you're calling perception.
What about the gain in knowledge that a novice rider experiences from
practicing?
And here I thought I understood perception...
Regards,
--Don Dwiggins "Experience is what you get when SEI Information Technology you were expecting something else." d.l.dwiggins@computer.org -- Seen on an office wall
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