Saturday, April 5, 2008
Locke, sensation, books 1&2
It has now five posts later and there is something that is noticable about Locke. There is not one section of Locke's text that I have read that does not include sensation. I think Locke thinks that sensation is one of the most important things that your mind is capable of. Everyone experiences different sensations but that makes sensation so crazy. What one person hears can be different to another person. Or what another person sees can be slightly different than another person. By writing my last sentence I just thought of an example. Next time you are in Bj's or Best Buy, go to the TV department (the wall that has all the TV's on at the same time). If you look closely each TV gives a slightly different color, picture, tint etc. Think about if each tv is a set of eyes of a separate individual. If everyone's eyes were set at a different color shades or whatever then everyone would see color differently. It's a hard concept to explain through text but I just think it fits with how Locke describes how we sense and perceive information from the outside world.
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WOOOWWW! This is a great example.. ha ha and I can picture it so perfectly too. Each tv is a little different, even though they set at the same exact settings, color, movie, whatever... Hmm good point.
i understand what you are saying and i would have to agree but are you saying that our senses are unreliable to ourselves or inconsistent amoung people in general? certain sensations are consistent from person to person while other ones are more open to interpretation. Ex. getting stabbed will cause a ton of pain for every person, while seeing a teal color will look more blue to some and more green to others.
reply to dotto: i was going more with the point of certain sensations are inconsistant among people in general. But also, someone who is stabbed may have a higher tolerance to pain then someone else, but i guess that would be tolerance rather than perception. I was going more on the lines of ur color teal example when i gave the example of the tv's.
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