Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart) / quote 50 of 171

Confusing experience with knowledge

Again in an email correspondence with Riccardo Manzotti he says: There is a confusion between experience and knowledge, which is the same as saying that there is a confusion between phenomenology and epistemology. Since we do both with our minds, a lot of people confuse the fact that we experience the world—namely consciousness—with the fact that we use concepts to describe the world. The former is not an outcome of the latter. The latter could happen even in the absence of consciousness and vice versa.

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