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Phenomenology of Perception

All hitherto existing models of perception are false. From the outset empiricism would do violence by mis-describing its most basic datum, the act of perceiving. Idealism would come about to try and correct the absurdities that arise when empiricism is taken as doctrine. However, by failing to provide an alternate account of perception, idealism left the crucial point unchallenged. There are no atoms of perception. Perception is already a whole. That, I think, is the crucial point, and from there... Most profound, far-reaching book of philosophy in the past hundred years or so. Anyway, it's my favorite. I want to call it an abyss, in the sense that it's infinite and unfathomable, but it's a joyous abyss, a teeming abyss. And there are arguments, too. It's at once an extremely rigorous treatise and a long tracking shot by Andrei Tarkovsky... This is one of those books that makes GR's star system seem pretty ridiculous (sorry!).

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