Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!pacbell!well!fico2!everexn!karen From: karen@everexn.uucp (Karen Valentino) Newsgroups: news.groups Subject: Re: Reality and Perception Message-ID: <1990Feb22.012655.5065@everexn.uucp> Date: 22 Feb 90 01:26:55 GMT References: Organization: Everex Systems, Inc. Lines: 23 jeffd@ficc.uu.net (Jeff Daiell) writes: >Reality is independent of perception. This may or may not be an accurate statement. But pragmatically speaking, it doesn't matter whether reality is or isn't independent of perception, because we cannot see what reality *is*; we cannot supersede our perceptions. Sorry, couldn't resist this one. Flaming is in the eye of the beholder, because people perceive it differently from each other. And perceptions about flaming are even more subjective than perceptions of, say, an apple. An apple doesn't need semantics to describe it; it can be seen. Flaming does. Karen -- Karen Valentino <> Everex North (Everex Systems) <> Sebastopol, CA karen@everexn.uu.net ..{apple, well}!fico2!everexn!karen "Clearly, the idea of human beings as units remains at war with the notion of the interdependence of all things." -- Salvador Minuchin