@Willi Said
is observation the same non-doing?
Observation (Perception) is the identification, organization and interpretation of data. This (I believe) is best done with minimum bias.
Data is an organized collection of pieces of information about an object.
A disorganized collection of pieces of information is not data. It is just a chaotic collection of bits. Once organized the pieces of information (bits) may be interpreted. Interpretation always has some degree of bias (i.e., presupposition). We were programmed by society to accept certain beliefs as fact. It is difficult (at least for me) to give up my facts i.e., Presuppositions). Hence the bias…
And off I go on one of my tangents.
Data is an organized collection of pieces of information about an object.
There is that which is not perceptible
There is that which is perceptible
When that which is perceptible is being perceived it is an object. (i.e., the object of perception)
So…
Data is an organized collection of pieces of information about that which is perceptible when itis being perceived.
Perception is the identification, organization and interpretation of a collection of pieces of information about that which is perceptible when that which is perceptible it is being perceived.
The potential for a reasonably accurate identification, organization, and interpretation of data increases when there is minimal bias.
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There are (as you probably know) five major theories of that which is truth.
Science (If I understand correctly and I probably don’t but there is always a fist time) …science uses the correspondence theory of truth (i.e., a reasonably close correspondence between that which is believed and that which is the case).
Yes, I am aware of species specific perception. Here I am speaking of humans is a particular culture.
Anyway…
If a human is able to approximate that which is the case the potential for survival increases.
Cultural bias has evolved (through trial and error – re-search) as a practical approximation of that which is the case.
I am just writing the thoughts as they come to me and that is why it is disorganized and not data worth interpreting.
A problem is that antiquated vestigial biases can be disastrous (i.e., decrease the potential for survival).
I don’t remember where I was going with this or where I intended to be when I got there but the thought has (as usual) withered on the conceptual vine. Alas …it is all meaningless irrelevant babbling anyway.
Thank you for the question. It got my neurons to firing. Randomly (of course) but firing.