We can only perceive what we have the conceptual tools to see. The doors of perception are built from acquired concepts.
Sequence
Knowledge and Perception
A two-part sequence on the structure of knowledge and the limits of perception — what it means that we can only see what we have concepts to see, and what happens when we mistake the map for the territory.
4 posts
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The mistake of treating your representation of the world as a property of the world itself — projecting the map onto the territory.
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We do not have direct access to reality. What we have is descriptions — and the gap between pursuing truth and pursuing accurate descriptions is large enough to fall into.
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The boundary between self and environment is porous, possibly illusory. You are not a mind looking out at reality from behind glass.