Re: Non Physical Experience

Don Mikulecky (mikuleck@HSC.VCU.EDU)
Tue, 30 Jun 1998 09:48:28 -0400


Don Mikulecky replies:

Walter Fritz wrote:

> Steven Smith <sas@diegetic.lanl.gov> says (and I agree):
>
> On Jun 26, 2:13pm, Walter Fritz wrote:
> > Subject: Non Physical Experience
> > > what i am trying is to bring us to the level of logical and
> > > systemtheoretical research wich will help us to overcome the
> > > boundaries of "direct sensual perception" and do our research
> > > by "our brain" instade by "our eyes"
> >
> > It seems to me that all the contents of our brains are based on sense
> > experience. All we know and all we learned to do is the consequence of
> > actions and sense information.
> >
> > "Logical and system theoretical research" is not possible without
> > information, and all information is based on sense information.
> >

I refer you to the work of Eckart Hess and others on instinctive behavior in
humans. It parallels all the volumes of work on instinctive behavior in
animals.

>
>
> I strongly recommend Daniel Abrams' book THE SPELL OF THE SENSUOUS
> which is a
> cultural anthropologist's view of how we are creatures of our own
> sensorium and
> to what extent that sensorium is distorted and convoluted by our
> cultural
> biases.
>
> --
> Steve Smith
> Graphics/Visualization Team
> Distributed Computing Group
> Los Alamos National Laboratory

respectfully,
Don Mikulecky