(June 8, 2012 at 1:12 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Creating a mental construct is a function; visualizing that construct is an experience. In addition, imagining something only takes you so far. As an artist, I can and do imagine mixing colors and distinguish between various pigment qualities in my head, but, as you say, only conceptually. I can make pictures in my head, yet none of these can substitute for a picture in front of me. Actual reality is more visceral and qualitatively different from imagining it, just as dreams pale in comparision to waking reality.
And how does this address my point that physical description and knowledge can actually lead to an experience? All you have said is that it would be a weaker experience compared to waking reality, but it would be an experience nonetheless.
