# Experience is often misunderstood, because there is no such thing as ‘raw’ experience - all our experience of the world comes through layers of conscious and unconscious interpretation ## Associated Entries: - [[./ too. For our external experience is never direct; nor do we even experience the signals in our nerves directly - we would not know what to make of the streams of electrical crackles that they carry. What we experience]] - [[./ Moreover, experience does play a role in philosophy - only not the role of experimental testing that it plays in science. Primarily, it provides philosophical problems. There would have been no philosophy of science if]] - [[./ can know that only after we have seen it in the light of a new explanation. In the meantime we have no option but to see the world through our best existing explanations - which include our existing misconceptions. And]] - [[./ problem of consciousness of trying to decide what it means that we feel conscious, maybe is asking too much. And it would be easier to say, because our consciousnesses are not independent of one another. If a person is]] - [[./ We realists take the view that reality is out there objective, physical and independent of what we believe about it. But we never experience that reality directly. Every last scrap of our external experience is of]] - [[./ it's become part of the person's explanatory framework, the person can change it and can reinterpret and can decide, you know, when receiving the injection or something and the injection hurts, you can know that you]] - [[./ Yeah, well, I mean I wouldn't classify interaction as a separate thing, because once you understand that there's such a thing as the mind acting on the person and therefore on the outside world and the outside world]] - [[./ We do not experience time flowing, or passing. What we experience are differences between our present perceptions and our present memories of past perceptions. We interpret those differences, correctly, as evidence]] - [[./ I can say, well, red is this warm colour, there's a sort of excitement. I can describe various things. And you can, in your own self, have some of those experiences, even if the whole experience is not fully captured.]] - [[./ What is my evidence I have already presented some of it in Chapter 8, where I discussed the multiverse view of knowledge. Although we do not know what consciousness is, it is clearly intimately related to the growth]] - [[./ too. For our external experience is never direct; nor do we even experience the signals in our nerves directly - we would not know what to make of the streams of electrical crackles that they carry. What we experience]] - [[./ TERMINOLOGYQuale (plural qualia) The subjective aspect of a sensation.Behaviourism Instrumentalism applied to psychology. The doctrine that science can (or should) only measure and predict people’s]] #L2