It seems to me that top-down processing isn't simply a matter of belief and/or expectation, but the actual perception of the whole as a whole prior to believing anything about it. That whole then provides an organizing context for the parts giving them not only meaning, but also being, in the sense that what the parts are is a function of how they're embedded in the context provided by the perceived whole. I'm intentionally using the term "perceived" here to indicate an actual percept, rather than a belief or expectation. Taking a common example, we don't perceive musical melody as a collection of parts, but as a whole that embraces the parts giving them whatever meaning and being they have within that already perceived melody. We don't have a belief about the melody anymore than we have a belief about the taste of carrots. The melody is directly perceived as a whole phenomenon held in awareness as the various notes and silences occur in the present moment already embedded in the whole percept of the melody held within our mind. Unfortunately, we too often begin with belief rather than remaining open to the emerging perceptual gestalt we might apprehend if we came to our experience from a space of open, silent, unattached, awareness. For instance, we have beliefs about the nature of other people and tend to fit everything we experience of them within the context of our beliefs rather than attuning to a felt-sense of the whole person being gifted to us within an open field of awareness. In my thinking, ultimate Reality is that primal gestalt or absolute wholistic form within which and from which all seeming parts derive the full substance of their meaning and being. Depending on your culture you might use words like God or Brahman or Being to name such a primal gestalt. Just imagine how reality would appear to someone who experiences their world and their life in that world from a direct perception of that primal gestalt beyond all possible belief structures which, of course, are already wholly contained within and derive their meaning and being from their total belonging to this ultimate Whole.
10:03 I thought two objects were whole, but one is more beautiful, or organised to phrase things better, and the other - mildly disturbing, due to complete lack of proportion, but the object is also more unique, baroque, so to speak..
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The ABC example I read as A13C bc that is something that makes sense to me as hexadecimal
The first one didn't work for me, so I gave up on the rest. And I'm still hearing it as someone playing with glass
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It really helped me a lot thank you
but try the test saying: "nice sfphvaesces". THEN what you people see?
The sign wave speech example baffled me lol
Seing is not always believing.
It seems to me that top-down processing isn't simply a matter of belief and/or expectation, but the actual perception of the whole as a whole prior to believing anything about it. That whole then provides an organizing context for the parts giving them not only meaning, but also being, in the sense that what the parts are is a function of how they're embedded in the context provided by the perceived whole. I'm intentionally using the term "perceived" here to indicate an actual percept, rather than a belief or expectation.
Taking a common example, we don't perceive musical melody as a collection of parts, but as a whole that embraces the parts giving them whatever meaning and being they have within that already perceived melody. We don't have a belief about the melody anymore than we have a belief about the taste of carrots. The melody is directly perceived as a whole phenomenon held in awareness as the various notes and silences occur in the present moment already embedded in the whole percept of the melody held within our mind.
Unfortunately, we too often begin with belief rather than remaining open to the emerging perceptual gestalt we might apprehend if we came to our experience from a space of open, silent, unattached, awareness. For instance, we have beliefs about the nature of other people and tend to fit everything we experience of them within the context of our beliefs rather than attuning to a felt-sense of the whole person being gifted to us within an open field of awareness.
In my thinking, ultimate Reality is that primal gestalt or absolute wholistic form within which and from which all seeming parts derive the full substance of their meaning and being. Depending on your culture you might use words like God or Brahman or Being to name such a primal gestalt. Just imagine how reality would appear to someone who experiences their world and their life in that world from a direct perception of that primal gestalt beyond all possible belief structures which, of course, are already wholly contained within and derive their meaning and being from their total belonging to this ultimate Whole.
10:03 I thought two objects were whole, but one is more beautiful, or organised to phrase things better, and the other - mildly disturbing, due to complete lack of proportion, but the object is also more unique, baroque, so to speak..
Weirdly enough I could tell that it was a person talking...
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