[MD] Experience, essentialism, physicalism

[Ham Priday]

DM/Matt/Ant --

One of you said:
> When it comes to taste, touch, etc we are not simply
> interpreting stuff we are observing, the environment
> is actually changing us dynamically, its making our
> ears vibrate and its dumping molecules into out taste buds,
> etc. Interpretation is about how we value these changes
> and what sort of changes we decide to bring about in ourselves
> and world.

What is the "stuff we are observing"?

Ham