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Originally Posted by Gem
The reality of the experiece is then the coscious awareness if the motion and the codification of it and the conveyance of that symbolic representation. The symbol indicates the real.
philosophers of truth have acknowledged that when immediate subjectivity is described, as that description becomes more elaborate, the less accurate it becomes, but a map which is not the landscape in that is bears no subjective resemblance to the landscape, is still extraordinarily useful for navigating the landscape because it is a 'true statement' about it... it is a meaningful symbolic representation of the real - but looks nothing like it.
The imagination sees the landscape in the map.
The landscape is understood though the mapping of it
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Agreed...science seeks to represent What Is in relationships or measurements of relationships which bear no direct resemblance to What Is.
And which never can, because symbols can never substitute for experience and reality.
They can only serve as reminders or pointers in the most finite and "measurable" or concretely symbolic sense, and all experience is only measurable or scientific in the same sense that the scientific paradigm can rigidly and explicitly guide and name and control it.
Still, it is a layer of truth, I agree.
Peace & blessings
7L
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and become themselves despite all opposition.
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