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Direct experience versus mental construct
Modern science, together with Buddhist philosophy from the distant past, teaches us that direct experience should be the ultimate master that dictates what to believe. But then the whole thing becomes circuitous: If direct experience is all there is that cannot be doubted, we can only legitimately believe in direct experience. In other words, the cogito of René Descartes should be “I perceive, therefore I am.” The “I” is simply there to indicate that the act of perception is not a disembodied affair, outside of time and space, but relates to a perceiving subject, whatever we have to say about it.
By Oliver Jones Jr.about 4 hours ago in BookClub
