Filters and Reflections: Perspectives on Reality (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781936033010)

When confronting the unexplained, it is helpful to consider it from many different points of view. In an essay published in 2004, entitled "Sensors, Filters, and the Source of Reality," Robert Jahn and Brenda Dunne of Princeton University's PEAR laboratory proposed that consciousness constructs its reality by ordering the information it derives from the external world through an array of physiological, psychological, and cultural filters. This thesis has now been considered by nineteen distinguished scholars who here present their commentaries from a broad spectrum of professional and personal perspectives. Drawn from such diverse backgrounds as art, Buddhism, evolutionary biology, fantasy, out-of-body experiences, philosophy, physics, psychology, semiotics, and systems engineering, among others, these contributions offer an assortment of unique and fascinating glimpses of how our experiences and their styles of representation are reflected through these filters of consciousness.

Author: Zachary Jones
ISBN-10: 1936033011
ISBN-13: 9781936033010
Publisher: Icrl Press
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2009
Pages: 310
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.65d