[MD] What is SOM?

[Krimel]

> Krimel said to dmb:
> You want to claim that pre-intellectual experience is a unity. I have
> presented facts to assert it is not. I claim that unity is a cognitive
> illusion that only occurs at the level of perception. It is the result of
> the synthesis of multimodal sensory input and memory of past experience.
>
DM: Is there not an evolution here? From original unity of self-world, to
a differentiation into self, other-things, other-selves, to a realisation 
that beyond
this expereience is a world that transcends it all, to the realisation that 
there
are possibilities that transcend the world (known to 
physicists/mathematicians,
 mystics and members of the DQ cult, maybe even DMB). 

[Krimel]
I attempted to discuss this in terms of its evolution not long ago in the
context of developmental psych. Infants definitely go through at least the
first parts that you describe. But I was told that this was rigid thinking
based on faulty metaphysical assumptions. Apparently the patterns of our
common experience of maturation are as irrelevant as the tools nature gives
us to apprehend the world. 

Better, I am told to zoom around unfocused.