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What is experience?
quddusaliquddus said:lol ... yes ... but what is it?
BoulderHead said:It is a wonderful thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Kerrie said:subjective proof?
loseyourname said:What exactly do you mean by "what is it?" (And should I have put two question marks there?)
I suppose you could say an experience is any temporally extended perception, perception being the awareness either of sensory input or introspective thought.
honestrosewater said:Do two magnets experience each other?
Does a leaf experience sunlight, wind, or rain?
Is cell irritability experience?
Does your tongue taste a lemon or do you taste it?
Where would you draw the line?
Happy thoughts
Rachel
Kerrie said:valuable in many cases, so long as one can draw some sort of learning experience from it.
honestrosewater said:I don't think there is *a* definition ;)
quddusaliquddus said:I have a feeling this def. is missing something. Erm...can we define experience in terms of labels of experience i.e words? Is that 'ok' thing to do?
Is being in a vegetative state- an experience?
Is just being alive an experience?...therefore even if u don't have sensory input or thought you could have experience?
p-brane said:Experience is the result of the stimulation of specific sensory organs and organelles in an organism by the environment. It includes internal stimulation via simple chemical reactions and/or neuronal exchanges and eventually the storage of experiencial information gained from the stimulus of the sensory input in the form of modified dioxyriboneucleic acid molecules and modified chemical and/or neuronal behaviors in response to the "experience" or similar experiences in quesition.
That will be all!
quddusaliquddus said:p-brane: "Experience is the result of "
You are saying what experience is as a result of something else. Does it exist in itself? ...i.e... are those bio-chemical processes you describe the actual experience themselves or is it something 'after' that happens?
Dissident Dan said:But of what value is that knowledge if it does not lead to better experiences?
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An experience is a subjective state.
Experience in a particular field is having adequate germane experiences (first definition) grounded in objective reality as to have gained the knowledge necessary for a certain task, or at least enough to put oneself well above the typical level of knowledge.
p-brane said:My my, this foundation has experienced some trauma. Look how the water has seeped into the cement and experienced freezing and thus, the cement has experienced some deterioration.
In this example, is the cement really experiencing cracking and deterioration? Yes. This is confirmed by our observations.
loseyourname said:I don't think this is what is meant by experience here. We've run into a difficulty in that the word is rather ambiguous and can be used to mean two different things. I'm pretty sure the author of the thread meant to ask how we would define human experience. I could be wrong. Maybe it's just the neuroscientist in me, but I would never speak of a block of cement being the subject of an experience, even though there would be no inconsistency in laymen's terms.
loseyourname said:I don't think this is what is meant by experience here. We've run into a difficulty in that the word is rather ambiguous and can be used to mean two different things. I'm pretty sure the author of the thread meant to ask how we would define human experience. I could be wrong. Maybe it's just the neuroscientist in me, but I would never speak of a block of cement being the subject of an experience, even though there would be no inconsistency in laymen's terms.
It seems people here generally may have in mind as the definition of experience that most relates to philosophy this:honestrosewater said:Wow, did no one read any of my posts? The word can certainly have more than two meanings- I've already pointed out five. That is why I asked if quddusaliquddus had a specific kind of experience in mind.
honestrosewater said:If everyone agrees on a definition, great. If one person doesn't know what the other is talking about, what's the point of having a discussion? That's why I don't think my comments were mere squabbling.
I didn't mean to offend anyone, and I'm not offended if anyone ignores me- just flabbergasted.
Happy thoughts
Rachel
quddusaliquddus said:Yes.I meant human experiences
p-brane said:In terms of human experience imagine a 2 year old being ignored or worse, being badgered by a drunken father/mother. This is an experience the toddler would not have any benchmarks to compare with. The experience is weathered but the toddler is unaware of the impinging effects and influences this environment has on his/her development etc.