what I mean by trivial

Posted by Laurence on September 08, 2000 at 08:47:20:

In Reply to: Re: Skepticism posted by Sambersil on September 07, 2000 at 15:21:58:

I just mean it's no big deal, it is common sense, something all of us have easy access to and apply every day, something that does not require lengthy studies nor high IQ.

Um, if you don't mind my asking, how can any fact that completely redefines reality be "trivial"????? To ANYONE? I think you just haven't applied it thouroughly enough to everything. How can you philosophically talk about science and observation, or even "knowledge", in view of your "agreement" that nothing is necessarily true, or even necessarily probably true? And how is your comment on world maps relevant?

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: : This fact is trivial to a NLP practitioner, it is part of what is called a "cognitive strategy". WHen I used the word "science", it is to indicate a higher level of awareness and discipline in the way facts are gathered and processed from actual observation. Any mature scientist, read D.Bohm or interviews with other great researchers, they all know the big part of irrational that goes on "under the hood", but they also know the value of rules and structure in helping shaping useful maps of the world. Take an exemple of how we structure reality, which differs greatly depending on your native culture, say a chair, people will have an image of it as you say the word, this is their experience, but a chair has a meaning to them as something they sit on, relative to a specific function, etc....So the chair will be defined at lower level by its function, then by its style, affective links attached to it, associated memories, etc..., see how then things become more subjective and individual, and a chair will make sense for a cat, but not for a cow! Etc...

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