From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2025-05-19, Ed Cryer  wrote:   
      
   >> "In attempting to induce an awakening, I think that it   
   >> can be helpful to view ordinary experience in terms of   
   >> two layers – namely, raw sensory data on top of which   
   >> there's another layer of conceptuality.   
   >>   
   >> Now, of course, such division is never actually present   
   >> in our direct experience, but to artificially divide   
   >> experience in this way can be useful in this kind of   
   >> endeavor."   
   >>   
   > Most people have extreme difficulty in perceiving "raw   
   > sensory data".  That's where science has its reign.   
   >   
   > Have you ever given thought to why philosophers have   
   > categorised our experience; Aristotle's Categories,   
   > Kant's Categories.   
   >   
   > Try this video and ponder deeply.   
   > https://youtu.be/ORoTCBrCKIQ   
      
   'Pondering' is just more of the "layer of conceptuality",   
   and thus might be likened to curing dis-ease with more of   
   the dis-ease.   
      
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   NPC's dutifully ignored.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)