Hi Erin,
"e-prime" was invented by the International Society
for General Semantics the organization founded by
Alfred Korzybski the author of "Science and Sanity"
the book that recognized the existence of
Non-Aristotelian logic, which I refer to as Null-A.
A-Logic is the two valued logic of either/or, black
vs. white. e-prime was invented to avoid the use of
"is" as a term of identity.
Liking/value is a guide to finding what you, an
individual considers important and significant and
thus what you will perceive in the environment.
It works like this:
Most westerners have been taught that in a standard
deck of playing cards there are four suits. black
clubs, red diamonds, black spades and red hearts.
This is a value pattern we were taught. So in an
experiment cards were flashed on a screen very fast,
so that the observers thought they could not really
tell what card they were seeing so they thought they
were guessing the card. Their eyes & brains could
recognize the images at that speed and so they
"guessed" with 100% accuracy. Then they were shown
red spades and black diamonds. These cards were
patterns they were not expecting, thus they didn't
"like". Hence they could not guess accurately when
they came on the screen even when they were flashed
slowly. They didn't expect those patterns and so the
observers refused to see the card as it truly was.
Many of the people in the experiment never saw the
card as it truly was. Some, after the image was
slowed way down, had a 'revelation' realized that the
expected patterns had been messed around with. Once
they had that realization they could be shown the
anomalous cards at the fast speeds and still 'guess'
with 100% accuracy.
Therefore we perceive what we like, what we expect,
what we value. Upon encountering something very new,
something anomolus we may not 'see' that thing at all.
We may 'choose' to see what we are more familiar with
and replace the actual real event/object with a
pattern we 'like'/we expect. This is how 'reality is
what we like' is a "true" statement.
This topic is part of a essay I wrote.
People shape, and are shaped by, ideas,
or
Q-Intellect shapes, and is shaped by, Q-Social,
Gary
--- Erin Noonan <enoonan@kent.edu> wrote:
> Bo,Platt, Maggie, Bartz, and every likable person,
>
> BO: yes I think your "perception is reality" fits
> nicely with how I
> >understand it (as Platt pointed out) on the
> condition that perception doesn't
> >solely imply biological sensing because inorganic
> value is also part of the
> >Quality universe.
> >
>
> ERIN: Okay it is not sitting well with me that you
> can
> agree perception but not liking is reality.
> You are and are not postmodernists;)
>
> I am not exactly sure why it doesn't sit well.
> Okay so I am trying to tease out the differences by
> thinking out
> loud if you can show me what I am missing I would
> appreciate it:
> "reality is what you like" I do not agree with
> "liking is a good guide to reality" I do agree with
>
> What gets me about "reality is what you like" is
> wrong is when it
> is interpreted as whatever you like is what is real.
>
> I also would not agree with whatever you perceive is
> what is real.
> In that case...let's not go there that's too trippy.
>
> So when read like that I do not agree with it but
> when I read
> "reality is what you like" as a heuristic or rule of
> thumb then I do agree
> with it because it is saying basically the same as
> liking as a guide to
> reality.
>
> So this reminded me of E-prime. I had sent out an
> article by
> R. Wilson when Platt lovingly asked me to define
> "is" for him.
> There are scientists who use this language that
> avoids "is".
> this X is a Y is an Aristotlerian framework and
> encounters
> trouble when you come across paradoxes like light is
>
> a particle or light is a wave. He suggest wording
> such as light appears as
> a particle when measured by this instrument, etc.
>
> So in that art gallery quote where it says to take
> things as
> provisionally true then isn't everything a
> heuristic?
> How exactly do we separate a true heuristic and a
> truth.
>
> erin
>
>
>
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