Re: LOGO-L> Why is accurate thinking so unpopular?

[Gary Mccallister <mccallis@mesa5.mesa.colorado.edu>]

While this is not addressed to me, I am curious.  What is "Piagetian
learning"?  And if there aren't some kind of concret reality in the world
(in contrast to millions of iterpretations of individual experiences), how
do we make electric lights work etc.?

Tom & Adele Woods wrote:

> Bob Gorman wrote:
> >It's not that people can't see what's going on around them,
> >or understand it, but rather because (?) of higher level needs
> >(ego and identity) they actively avoid sensing and interpreting
> > what is going on right in front of them. To stop believing in
> > an illusion, one has to admit they were originally fooled or
> >conned or whatever, and indeed may still be.
>
> Am I correct in assuming you believe there is one interpretation that is
> accurate and there are others that are not?
>
> I'm curious what you think about the argument that everything is an
> illusion, that facts are products of subjective experience, that we each
> construct very personal realities using our senses and our ability to
> assimilate and accommodate, and that my reality is necessarily different
> from yours because our experiences (and maybe our sensory apparatus) are
> different. I'm curious what implications your statement might have for
> Piagetian learning.
>
> Tom Woods
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Please post messages to the Logo forum to logo-l@gsn.org.  Mail
> questions about the list administration to logofdn@gsn.org.  To
> unsubscribe send    unsubscribe logo-l    to majordomo@gsn.org.



---------------------------------------------------------------
Please post messages to the Logo forum to logo-l@gsn.org.  Mail
questions about the list administration to logofdn@gsn.org.  To
unsubscribe send    unsubscribe logo-l    to majordomo@gsn.org.