Filters and Reflections: Perspectives on Reality - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936033011 ISBN 13: 9781936033010

Publisher: Icrl Press, 2009

Synopsis

When confronting the unexplained, it is helpful to consider it from many different points of view. In an essay published in 2004, entitled "Sensors, Filters, and the Source of Reality," Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne of Princeton University's PEAR laboratory proposed that consciousness constructs its reality by ordering the information it derives from the external world through an array of physiological, psychological, and cultural filters. This thesis has now been considered by nineteen distinguished scholars who here present their commentaries from a broad spectrum of professional and personal perspectives. Drawn from such diverse backgrounds as art, Buddhism, evolutionary biology, fantasy, out-of-body experiences, philosophy, physics, psychology, semiotics, and systems engineering, among others, these contributions offer an assortment of unique and fascinating glimpses of how our experiences and their styles of representation are reflected through these filters of consciousness.

Edition details

• Publisher: Icrl Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1936033011
• ISBN 13: 9781936033010
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 310
• Editor: Jones Zachary, Dunne Brenda, Jahn Robert