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The flow of information

The flow of information. SENSATIONS trigger PERCEPTS which converge on CONCEPTS. [at each step, specific processes (“ERROR DECTECTION”) work to MINIMIZE ERROR (we may not be able to know the TRUTH but we can minimize ERROR)

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The flow of information

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  1. The flow of information • SENSATIONS trigger PERCEPTS which converge on CONCEPTS. • [at each step, specific processes (“ERROR DECTECTION”) work to MINIMIZE ERROR (we may not be able to know the TRUTH but we can minimize ERROR) • Sensations, “Percepts, and concepts interpenetrate and melt together, impregnate and fertilize each other. Neither, taken alone, knows reality in its completeness. • ... The world we practically live in is one in which it is impossible (except by theoretic retrospection) to disentangle the contributions of intellect from those of sense.” –William James, Some Problems of Philosophy. (1911: 51,52).

  2. Seeing deeply – the TRUTH • All truths wait in all things– Whitman (1855) • It is only necessary to behold thus the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from the habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance.–Thoreau’s Journal (1855) • THAT is the “teachable moment” –the perfect storm of circumstances that imprints itself in consciousness ... The “transcendent” moment in which we move beyond the boundaries of our former selves

  3. Missing link – how to see • Perhaps All truths wait in all things and looking in a way that is aside from the habitual path or routine can lead to a “teachable moment” • Sounds simple, BUT, as Wittgenstein (1953) put it, • “The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something - because it is always before one's eyes.) ... we fail to be struck by what, once seen, is most striking and most powerful.”

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