To be or not to be an apple: Wolfgang Smith's new article

Dr Wolfgang Smith has written a brief but powerful response to a critique of his work by Dr Alec McAndrew in ''When is an apple not an apple?''

You may find his article here: Philos-Sophia Initiative.

He demonstrates succinctly and irresistibly that the critique of what Dr. MacAndrew terms “the Cartesian assumption” (bi-furcation) is not in fact “uncalled for and misdirected.”

He also deals with the related question of perception of external realities by praying in aid the empirical work of James J. Gibson, a cognitive psychologist who began his career in the 1940’s at Cornell University on a government grant, tasked with discovering how one can visually perceive a so-called “aiming point” (e.g., the deck of a distant aircraft carrier as viewed from an approaching plane).

The conclusion from Gibson's ground-breaking research and analysis was:

...we do in truth perceive the “external world”  as just about everyone — from simple folk to the great philosophers — had thought all along! And that is why Gibson refers to it as “the ecological  theory of visual perception,” the point being that what we actually perceive is not “inside the head,” but outside:  it pertains in fact to what he terms “the environment,” which proves thus to be inherently what I term the corporeal  world.

Please be sure to visit the Philos-Sophia Initiative website. Smith's new film, The End of Quantum Reality, is due to be released in the USA on January 11, 2020.