I might agree with you AndrewF if I were sure that you existed to agree with.
Perhaps I need my camera to get a photo to be certain of existence
outside my *immediate* experience - what I can see, hear or smell
now. Getting a photo a part of the world that I was not looking at
at the time proves that that part of the world existed when I was not
experiencing it. That is the reason (probably) that SLRs are more
satisfying than rangefinders and the like - because the mirror blocks
the viewfinder for a time, however short, and when we get the prints
back we can see that the world (or that scene anyway) was still there
when we were not experiencing it. This is in some ways reassuring.
The trouble with cameras without a mirror is that you are never not
experiencing the scene, so you are never sure that it would have been
there if you had not been seeing it ...
[Will that do as a counterpoint to Shumano, Suntour and Ni-Cd old chap?]
:>)
Chris
At 12:06 +1100 21/1/02, andrew fildes wrote:
>>>P. S. The intoxication is cognitive not physiological.
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les clark / edgewater, nj / usa
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Same thing?
AndrewF
Well, phenomenologically speaking, that is, if one can speak in such
long terms. Though it's a bit discouraging to discover that the most
dominant sex organ is the brain. Hmmm.
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les clark / edgewater, nj / usa
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Thinking always was sexy, hey?
Perhaps we should get a philosophy sub-group going here to counter the bike
and battery nuts? For instance, is photography part of a materialist's
search for some form of residual immortality? Proof of existence?
Sigh.
AndrewF
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