One exploration that is interesting along these lines is how we build the filters with which we allow certain structures of knowledge in and keep others out. The much-abused term "paradigm", as it was exposited in the original seminal book, The Nature of Scientific Revolutions provided a better handle than we had previously had on the mechanism. We erect over-arching modeling assumptions about the world. Data that contravenes the model often goes unobserved, or if observed gets readily rationalized as insignificant.

But this opens some interesting paths to consider. For example, what if there were in the individual a capacity for dispensing with the paradigmatic approach to reality? What if an individual could turn of all his paradigms and tolerate a wide open, raw-feed river of perception? What bands of frequencies would open up, and what dnamics would reveal themselves?

To put it another way, how much could we find out if we were not so deeply enmeshed in knowing what we already know?

Food for reflection, as the man said when he threw the hamhock at the mirror.

Regards,

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