[MD] The Edge 2006 Annual Question

[David M]

Scott said:

there is value involved, and that
> implies triadic relations, not dyadic.

DM: Is that right? Do we not experience a quality first, say a pleasant 
sweeetness, and so we have whole undivided value. Only if we
go on to construct an object from a number of experiences do
we form any dualism of an object causing these experiences in a
subject. What we come to objectify as treacle, first appeared to
us as fragments of experience, certain colours, certain feels of
stickiness, a smell, and when we got it in our mouths a certain taste.
By separation from other experiences and consruction into a pattern
we create objects to form a dualism consisting of objects that we are
subjected to. Of course this ability to divide and construct is inseparable
from thinking and consciousness. Perhaps we should see experience
prior to being able to construct objects through thinking as unconscious
valuation.