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From: "Stanier, Alan M" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Reality and Perception
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:56:45 -0000
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This is really off-topic for this list, but OK.

How can you possibly "test your perceptions"? You have no access to
"reality" other than by the way you perceive it





-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of Tom Gull
Sent: 24 January 2009 19:45
To:
Subject: Re: [DNA] Reality and Perception

Leaving the context of the original quote aside and addressing Ken's
point,
I agree with him.

I had a manager who always quoted the "perception is reality" statement
to
me. I commented back to her that "people usually behave as if their
perception is reality" was much more accurate. Depending upon which you
believe, I think you approach life somewhat differently. With the
former,
there's no incentive to test your perceptions once you've decided
they're
correct. With the latter, you always want to test your perceptions -
you're
just aware that many people don't and you have to factor it into your
understanding of them (and of yourself if you start believing the former

statement DOES apply to you because the accuracy of your perceptions is
the
exception to the rule).

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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 11:24 AM
To: <>
Subject: [DNA] Reality and Perception

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Faux" <>
>
> In
>> addition perception is reality. What one believes to be true can and

>> does
>> assume this form.
>
> I don't understand the latter sentence, and I believe the first
sentence
> is
> profoundly wrong, although popular in some modern academic circles.
But
> admittedly; these two sentences are ripped out of the context of your
full
> message.
>
> True science would be close to dead in the water if reality were just
> perception of it; man is not the measure of all things.
>

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