It’s so easy to agree with TSK statements, since they’ve so often proved true in the past, and then not really test them out in life.\u00c2\u00a0 On the first page of chapter 16 I had an uncharacteristic reaction.\u00c2\u00a0 Two words struck me as too extreme: constructs\u00c2\u00a0being “imposed” on reality, and knowing through constructs\u00c2\u00a0being like looking at a “mirror”.\u00c2\u00a0 I protested: surely we can pour lemonade into a glass or a mug, but it’s still lemonade.\u00c2\u00a0 Aren’t constructs\u00c2\u00a0like a container for what we experience? And when I perceive, surely I am peering into a realm that may be distorted but not completely hidden.\u00c2\u00a0 Then I remembered what earlier\u00c2\u00a0chapters say about how we project the familiar forward and so\u00c2\u00a0keep repeating and wanting the same limited things.\u00c2\u00a0 Thinking of a mirror\u00c2\u00a0as being like the screen on which we project what our models allow us to “know”, felt more familiar.\u00c2\u00a0 What might be on the other side of the screen perhaps really is invisible (like the alley behind the theater when we are engrossed in a movie).\u00c2\u00a0 And if all we see is the container,\u00c2\u00a0do we really taste the lemonade?\u00c2\u00a0 –Michael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s so easy to agree with TSK statements, since they’ve so often proved true in the past, and then not really test them out in life.\u00c2\u00a0 On the first page of chapter 16 I had an uncharacteristic reaction.\u00c2\u00a0 Two words … Continue reading