Re: [Fwd: BOOKS: Prometheus Rising (perception retraining)]

From: Damien Broderick (damien@ariel.ucs.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sat Nov 01 1997 - 15:18:24 MST


At 07:15 PM 10/31/97 -0500, Haggers wrote:

>a sensed event affects the internalized nature of the
>experience and in a feedback loop, the internalized nature of the
>experience affects our perception, and so on. [...]
>I'm reminded of the adage (and Eric Watt Forste's well-considered
>sign-off line) "Expectation foils perception."

And, completing the epistemological loop mentioned above, perhaps a
fortiori, "expectation *enables* perception".

Damien Broderick



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