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Originally Posted by BigV
Specifically, MaggieL, if it is indeed true that...then you do have direct experience of the terrain. Additionally, you may have an elaborate system of maps. But responding to the map while ignoring the terrain is not wise.
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Experience is itself "an elaborate system of maps", too. Perception operates by trying to construct a model--a map--by interpreting sensory input. But it's still a system of maps and models, from beginning to end. Nobody has "direct experience of the terrain". When you believe you do (which is apparently a part of the map you're offering to share), you're actually only reifying one particular map.
No, thanks...I'll steer by my own lights.
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Last edited by MaggieL; 09-20-2006 at 09:37 PM.
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