From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Wed Feb 25 2004 - 13:49:29 GMT
David M,
> Platt
>
> So close to home you can no longer see the wonder!?
> Think again, you read some lines of black in a book,
> from a printers, from some ideas written by a dead man,
> about how light travels through space, and you understand
> something new about the cosmos, if you cannot see any leaping
> going on here you are definately missing something!
What I see is a human being human. It would be a leap for a monkey or a
dolphin, but not for you or me. Gleaning meaning from patterns of symbols
is what we do.
> PS New idea. Is quality in your head? We perceive things.
> We use concepts and sensations. But we do not think
> of the world as in our heads, we do not experience
> the world as in our heads, but it goes away when we shut our eyes.
> Maybe, visual perception is more like touching. When a photon enters
> the eye from the sun -if you look directly, the wave function stretches
> from the sun to my eye, it collapses on my eye, for a moment there is a
> wave function stretched out between us, we make contact and the wave
> function collapses, the potential connection between the sun and me is
> realised, I have touched the sun, right out there in the sky. If I was not
> here that wave function would be realised differently, I therefore change
> the emissions of the sun. This connection makes perception possible. Sounds
> good or mad?
Sounds good to me. My question is, "What's the mind in?" Any thoughts?
Regards,
Platt
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