[MD] NYC

[Carl Thames]

Marsha:
> Perhaps we have never been to NYC. We can study all about NYC, look at 
> photographs, read the history, and learn a tremendous amount about NYC 
> from books. Far more than the people who live and/or work in NYC know. We 
> can be experts. But, when we board an airplane and fly to NYC, there is a 
> great difference when we experience NYC with our eyes, our ears and other 
> senses. Then we understand so much more, don't we? Because we have the 
> direct experience of our senses and not just the mental image of NYC, even 
> though the latter is correct.  Direct perception is to see things as they 
> are, without changing them through our concepts.

Carl:
I think that seeing them through our concepts is the only way they're 
meaningful to us, so that whatever we perceive is through our own filter. 
This is why two artists can paint the same scene and come away with two 
totally different paintings.  The basic data is identical, but the 
perception is not.