Well, I'm willing to learn a new word any day of the week, and there's
the one for today.
>Where by "subjective" I mean undistracted by any thoughts, or anything else:
> just pure sensation.
Precisely. I mean it the same way. And that pure sensation will _only_ be
sensed- not taken to any other portion of the intellect or consciousness-
all creatures sense in this way, and indeed, some advantage comes of it-
learning about fire, and gunshots, e.g. So, even in the orgasm example,
each orgasm will be the first orgasm, to an experiencer of pure
sensation.
Yes, no? To me, objectivity (intersubjectivity? boy does that sound
jargonistic...) is what lets me take this feeling and explain it to
someone else, even explain it to myself, once enough objective
descriptions have come in about it....
>To devalue subjectivity is to devalue experience, which is, for us, life
itself.
Well, yes, _part_ of life itself, certainly, but I never _devalued_ it to
any extent. I, in fact, celebrate it, as part of this panoply of
experience which makes the human the best observer in this needless
universe.
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Wade T. Smith
morbius@channel1.com
wade_smith@harvard.edu
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