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Old 25-August-2003, 12:40 AM
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DoctorDick,

Not sure where you want to go with this perception of reality thing. You should really just spell out what you think and see how others react to it, rather than hinting around and confusing everyone. That said...

I was reading a little of the paper on your site on a theory of conciousness (havent finished it yet)

http://home.jam.rr.com/dicksfiles/Marion/science.htm

I was intrigued by the example of the woman who was brought up in a black and white room and your comment that she would probably not experience color at all if she was exposed to it.

1. her body has color, so she would have experience of color.
2. Ever press against your eyeballs? colored lights will appear

But even so I understand the idea of the analogy. If this is the type of thing you are wanting to speak about (how we percieve reality) what you should do is find some research on people who have been blind since birth and gained their eyesight later as an adult. Find out how they experience color, space, shape and reality. Or people who were deaf from birth and gained hearing.

some stuff I found:
http://www.nvrc.org/Signal%20Process...20Learning.htm
http://www.richardgregory.org/papers/
http://www.richardgregory.org/papers...vations_p1.htm
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