It is not the eye that sees, it is not the ear that hears; There is seeing, there is hearing. Who sees? Who hears? No one. That is the truth. For the seeing and the seen, the hearing and the heard are impersonality, impersonal consciousness. (Ask the Awakened, p. 30)
WWW distinguishes between a process of perceiving (one might also consider that the ongoing transient contents of attention) and perception considered as a process. The latter fails. Perceiving does not make reference to the subject-object divide. Perception, as conventionally conceived, delivers a Percept to a Subject, and thus introduces an unnecessary dualism.
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Dualist psychology necessarily maintains an uncomfortable position with respect to the centrality of subjective experience in our account of what is. Where behaviorism categorically outlawed any explanatory recourse to spooky, unverifiable and immeasurable mental states, latter-day cognitive psychology has constructed an elaborate hypothetical system, the Cognitive System, that plays many of the roles of Mind, without ever meaningfully addressing or even recognizing the absolutely fundamental place of subjective experience. It is a baroque construction, whose parts, proponents trust, will ultimately be vindicated by being found in some recognizable form in the workings of the nervous system. But the fullest account that can arise out of cognitive psychology is a mechanistic account, describing the workings of a machine.
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