Rationality or consciousness is itself a ratio or proportion among the sensuous components of experience, and is not something added to such sense experience. Subrational beings have no means of achieving such a ratio or proportion in their sense lives but are wired for fixed wave lengths, as it were, having infallibility in their own area of experience. Consciousness, complex and subtle, can be impaired or ended by a mere stepping-up or dimming-down of any one sense intensity, which is the procedure in hypnosis. And the intensification of one sense by a new medium can hypnotize an entire community.
The ear favours no particular __oint of view.__e are enveloped by sound.It forms a seamless web around us.We say, __usic shall fill the air._ We never say, __usic shall fill a particular segment of the air.__e hear sounds from everywhere, without ever having to focus. Sounds come from __bove,_ from __elow,_ from in __ront_ of us, from __ehind_ us, from our __ight,_ from our __eft.__e can__ shut out sound automatically. We simply are not equipped with earlids.Where a visual space is an organised continuum of a uniformed connected kind, the ear world is a world of simultaneous relationships.
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The ear favours no particular __oint of view.__e are enveloped by sound.It forms a seamless web around us.We say, __usic shall fill the air._ We never say, __usic shall fill a particular segment of the air.__e hear sounds from everywhere, without ever having to focus. Sounds come from __bove,_ from __elow,_ from in __ront_ of us, from __ehind_ us, from our __ight,_ from our __eft.__e can__ shut out sound automatically. We simply are not equipped with earlids.Where a visual space is an organised continuum of a uniformed connected kind, the ear world is a world of simultaneous relationships.
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