Tag Archives: Sense Data

Finding meaning in the meaningless

Posted on September 13, 2009 by

Agent Smith:  Illusions, Mr. Anderson.  Vagaries of perception.  Temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect, trying desperately to justify an existence that is without meaning or purpose! So, believing as I do that it is impossible to remove bias.  I … Continue reading →

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James-Mysticism

Posted on February 11, 2007 by

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/JamVari.html Lectures XVI and XVII MYSTICISM  One may say truly, I think, that personal religious experience has its root and centre in mystical states of consciousness; so for us, who in these lectures are treating personal experience as the exclusive … Continue reading →

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Multiple Intelligences

Posted on February 6, 2007 by

I was reading In the Theater of Consciousness: The Workspace of the Mind by Bernard Baars yesterday.  In Chapter 3 to illustrate a point about prototypes and imagery he gave a list of words to read and asked what came … Continue reading →

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Nature of Sensory Experience

Posted on January 29, 2007 by

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/perception-episprob/#1

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Sense Data

Posted on January 20, 2007 by

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sense-data/: Sense data are the (alleged) mind-dependent objects that we are directly aware of in perception, and that have exactly the properties they appear to have. Critics of sense data have objected to the theory’s commitment to mind-body dualism, its … Continue reading →

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Process Philosophy

Posted on January 20, 2007 by

SEP Entry  Rescher, Nicholas, “Process Philosophy”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2002 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2002/entries/process-philosophy/.   ‘Against this historical background, “process philosophy” may be understood as a doctrine invoking certain basic propositions: (1) That time … Continue reading →

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Noesis

Posted on January 18, 2007 by

[Realizing the value of this thing.  I finished the detailed outline/chart of the paper including how many pages each section would take. Looking through the blog reminded that I had left something out] Although I’m just adding another ‘elaborate’ post, … Continue reading →

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Sensate Intuition

Posted on October 22, 2006 by

Need to clarify in relation to techne or ‘skill’ knowledge. Focus to the idea that cognitive processing engages with skill knowledge in a dynamic interrelatedness. Use the sport example as both contrast and comparison since flow experience can be explained … Continue reading →

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