The analogy to navigating a world of reflected truths using bat-like perceptions of landmarks whose meaning is weighted by our histories and environments is brilliant and appreciated.
Thanks Deborah. This is such a concise and poetic way of channeling the essence I was trying to get at. It also helped me to see another implication of this idea: that the world is made of meaning, not things. As in every moment of perception we are reflected a meaning that has been crystallized out of a long historical process of people engaging with and valuing life in different ways; and nothing can be pried apart from its situatedness in that dynamic process of reflection.
The analogy to navigating a world of reflected truths using bat-like perceptions of landmarks whose meaning is weighted by our histories and environments is brilliant and appreciated.
Thanks Deborah. This is such a concise and poetic way of channeling the essence I was trying to get at. It also helped me to see another implication of this idea: that the world is made of meaning, not things. As in every moment of perception we are reflected a meaning that has been crystallized out of a long historical process of people engaging with and valuing life in different ways; and nothing can be pried apart from its situatedness in that dynamic process of reflection.