INTANGIBLE MATERIALITY
By Bruce Duensing

Ernst von Glasersfeld introduces the concept of radical constructivism
and how we come to know

In all my previous posts there are several themes one of which is that all paranormal phenomenon is based upon a fundamental principle as related in the masthead of this blog, that there is an inner and outer convergence within and without the observer which creates an intermediate potentiality freed from the constraints of consensus reality, which functions as a mirror to self.

Cognition is a spectrum which recognizes no boundaries but those we have created. Within the membrane of the potentialities we have edited into our variant of what valuates experience in our own individuated terms...we occupy a matrix of composite information composed of the materials our sensate inputs provide as raw material which is processed by our own orientation to the subject at hand. This orientation is as unique as there are individuals although they share varying degrees of consensus in regard to its organization however, not all processes as we will examine them are quite so obvious although interestingly enough, they comprise the substrate of our behavior.

Within the combinatorial variations embedded within cognition there is another form of sensory and experiential reality little remarked upon that is a common experience. Close your eyes and visualize the space shuttle. The mind does not discriminate nor is confined to only one class of simulation and one half of our lives are spent in the visualization of those objects which do not exist and yet they do in the intermediary realm of "dreams". Whether these thought forms exist is an unnecessary question but one question does remain. What is their relationship to what we sense? The ability to read what I have arranged is due to a simulation within the mind of vision as we do not nor ever will see any sensate object directly.

What Dr Vallee practices is a form of Constructivist epistemology, which is a epistemological perspective in philosophy about the nature of scientific knowledge held by many philosophers of science. Constructivists maintain that scientific knowledge is constructed by scientists and not discovered from the world through strict scientific methods. Constructivism believes that there is no single valid methodology and there are other methodologies for social science: qualitative research. This is largely opposed to positivism, which holds that scientific knowledge comes from positive affirmation of theories through strict scientific methods used in quantitative research. In other words, the social or cultural engineering that the UFO phenomenon may represent requires a methodology that lies outside of the laboratory as it is largely the transmission of experiential knowledge.

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