Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
11
196
Our experiential world, though quite unlike the world of physics, is well coordinated with it.
11
197
If it were not we could not move our physical bodies conveniently among physical objects, manage to put our hands on things we wished to touch, and so on.
11
198
Different sensory systems, as in various types of organisms, mean different experiential worlds.
11
199
Each of these, however, the world of the man, the cuttlefish, the butterfly, the ant, the sleen, the priest-king is congruent, though perhaps in unusual ways, with the presumably singular, unique physical world.
11
200
Beyond this, perception is largely a matter of interpreting a flood of cues, or coded bits, out of which we construct a unified, coherent, harmonious world.
11
201
Though the eye is a necessary condition for seeing, one does not, so to speak, "see" with the eye, but, oddly enough, with the brain.
11
202
If the optic nerve, or, indeed, certain areas of the brain, could be appropriately stimulated one could have visual experiences without the use of eyes.
Our experiential world, though quite unlike the world of physics, is well coordinated with it.
If it were not we could not move our physical bodies conveniently among physical objects, manage to put our hands on things we wished to touch, and so on.
Different sensory systems, as in various types of organisms, mean different experiential worlds.
Each of these, however, the world of the man, the cuttlefish, the butterfly, the ant, the sleen, the priest-king is congruent, though perhaps in unusual ways, with the presumably singular, unique physical world.
Beyond this, perception is largely a matter of interpreting a flood of cues, or coded bits, out of which we construct a unified, coherent, harmonious world.
Though the eye is a necessary condition for seeing, one does not, so to speak, "see" with the eye, but, oddly enough, with the brain.
If the optic nerve, or, indeed, certain areas of the brain, could be appropriately stimulated one could have visual experiences without the use of eyes.
- (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter )