Minimalism and exclusivity: Contrast, color, semiotics
Which is the "delusion", where does it lie: the color red that we perceive, the photons in waves of ~700 nanometers, the apple or stop sign that the light reflects off from, the cones in our retinas, the pigments within the cones, the hyperpolarization of the photoreceptor that sends the "color" signal, the hypopolarization (or stabilization) of
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P.S. I *love* your pseudonym "foucaultonacid". LOL!
"I guess delusion here is important... in terms I suppose of what acts, what behaviours will you make based on that discrete organisation of thoughts..."
If I read you correctly, you are concerned about the pragmatics of (my or anyone's) decision-making/actions that come from a perspective of discrete organization of thought. Personally, I am concerned about others who *don't* organize thought discretely. But, that seems like a self-displacing value judgment that doesn't really lead anywhere (although it's great to have values). My life is made up of moments, days, nights...very wierd, categorizable, beautifully-distinguishable moments. I watch minutes on the clock and bill by the hour, plan by the hour, day, week, year. I understand that it's all one long string, but that string is definitely variegated. My very processing/experience of time differs on a moment-to-moment basis---I've taken amphetamines that sped up my experience of time, and I've experienced such intense moments that have slowed down time so that they became (to me) none other than intense, discrete moments.
Because I experience the color red does not make it a "delusion" (even though photons and physics and metaphysics underlie what I see as "red") just as my experience of discrete moments of time does not make those moments a "delusion."
I guess one has to define the word "delusion" very carefully and know exactly what one means by it.
Thanks for asking, though. I appreciate the opportunity to flush out my thoughts. :)
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