"The Mask: A Primer on the Myth of Reality" analyzes, explains and illustrates that what we refer to as "the world" is not independent of our perceptual apparatus, but is rather an abstraction: a collectively shared, individually refined conceptual "mask" that we ourselves impose on the dynamic flow of human sensory experience to render it comprehensible and, to a limited degree, manageable. The Mask is 280 pages long, it references great literature ranging from Moby Dick (the book derives its name from an Ahab quote: "All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. . . . If a man...
"The Mask: A Primer on the Myth of Reality" analyzes, explains and illustrates that what we refer to as "the world" is not independent of our perce...
"The Mask: A Primer on the Myth of Reality" analyzes, explains and illustrates that what we refer to as "the world" is not independent of our perceptual apparatus, but is rather an abstraction: a collectively shared, individually refined conceptual "mask" that we ourselves impose on the dynamic flow of human sensory experience to render it comprehensible and, to a limited degree, manageable. The Mask is 280 pages long, it references great literature ranging from Moby Dick (the book derives its name from an Ahab quote: "All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. . . . If a man...
"The Mask: A Primer on the Myth of Reality" analyzes, explains and illustrates that what we refer to as "the world" is not independent of our perce...