Rettelser

The first one is the experience of perception.

Examples of it are to see the dogs, to hear the seller of tangerines or to feel the warmth of the sun.

But sensitive perception does not exhaust the experience of perception.

We have also perceptions of our own body, as to feel our breathing, to feel how we move our limbs or even to feel how pain rise from the pit of the stomach as well as to feel sexual pleasure or to feel hungry.

That what is perceived, which is either an object of the external world ─that is, an object of which we can say that is not a part of myself─, or my own physical body ─that is, that part of myself composed by physical matter─; 2.

The mean of interaction with that object, which is our sensitive body ─we se by the eyes, we hear by the ears, we touch by the skin and we feel pleasure and pain by the secretions and connections of our nervous system [I use the preposition “by” to express causal dependence: due to the eyes, we see, sue to the ears, we hear, etcetera.

Is it the right preposition?]─; and 3.

The experience of remembering can be define by the distinction with the three aspects that have defined the experience of perception: 1.

The memories exist only in our own mind.

The mean of interaction with that object are not our senses or our nervous system, but the neural system, which is in charge of activating every mental content. 3.

In the temporal dimension of remembering we can do a distinction: the experience of remembering as a human activity is in the present moment, but the object of that experience refers to past experiences of perception: we remember now something that has happened.

Now the content of the thoughts of the act of interpretation of my neighbor’s face seems not to fit in any of those two kinds of experiences.

So, it must be a third kind of experience, whose object is the genre comprehending of the content of the thoughts of an act of interpretation.

As in the remembering, in the imagination the object of reference ─what is remembered or imagined─ is a content of our mind.

While the content of the memory is only a passive creation because I shouldn’t do anything to create it, but it emerged by its own from a experience of perception, the content of the image is an active creation of the self, because to create it I must take a content, either mental or external, and vary it or matched with another content.

We perceive or remember something and then we wonder, to say, how would it be if…?

That is how all the fantastic creatures as unicorns and sphinxes were created.

Otherwise, the experience of imagination has the same mean of interaction with its object as the experience of remembering, as that mean can only be connections made by neuronal system, but it, the imagination, has the same temporal dimension as the experience of perception, because both its object of reference and the experience itself are in the present moment.