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On the Perimeter: Sense Perception and Mind‐Matter Entanglement
Author(s) -
Boyle Dennis E.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
philosophical investigations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.172
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1467-9205
pISSN - 0190-0536
DOI - 10.1111/phin.12295
Subject(s) - intellect , perception , subliminal stimuli , sense (electronics) , quantum entanglement , diversity (politics) , epistemology , cognitive science , psychology , philosophy , cognitive psychology , sociology , physics , quantum mechanics , quantum , electrical engineering , engineering , anthropology
This paper argues from the diversity of the five sense modes and the brief, fragmentary nature of what imposes on each of those five modes that sense‐perceptual objects such as books and running foxes become objects of understanding only through intellect’s subliminal, self‐referential organising activity (ISSOA) and so are properly understood as objects of thought rather than sense; and insofar as such objects are the entities which constitute empirical reality as we understand it, any consideration of or reference made to them is necessarily a reference to ISSOA, so ISSOA is properly regarded as a fundamental component of that reality.