The conversation about labels is interesting. We all know that a label is a word that acts as a unique identifier for an object, a sensation, an experience, to remind us of that object, sensation or experience.
In the most basic sense, we experience the physical world through touching, tasting, seeing, hearing, and smelling. We tend to exaggerate thinking about sensory experience and understate sense perception itself.
As an example, we tend to think about the weather with labels such as, “Today is a wet and windy day,” rather than simply feeling the present sensory experience directly in whatever way that is appearing, either as the actual wetness of rain falling on our faces as we are caught in a shower or the sound of wind and rain against the tin roof outside. To know a wet and windy day directly is to experience the wind and rain directly rather than through the label, “This is a wet and windy day.” The label is, at best, a story about the day. It is not the wetness and the sound itself.
But sure, if my wife asks what's the weather like, I’ll definitely not throw her outside and ask her to experience it herself (although tempting
) I will conjure up a story....
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