Hierarchy Index Cards - E
Eddington
Card-E-03-12, -13 Diagram
Card-E-03-10. DH: In early perceptual reference there must be a stage when the infant or animal, turning its head, see the world rotate. We, at the reflective stage of reference, interpret the motion as the motion of ourselves, of our head, but this is a product of experience & reflection, an elaborate construct: what is actually given in the present perception is the motion of the perceived objects. Presumably a very drunk man recedes to this primitive viewpoint when he sees the floor come up to meet him, or is hit by the wall. He has become genuinely ego-centre, like Eddington’s electrons.
Card-E-03-16 DEH: Yourself as centre of the world is legitimate starting point. Realise first what the world is for you. Assert your own frame of reference. But, as Lloyd Morgan teaches, evolution is a matter of increasing objectiveness, of building first an external world, & then transforming it by reflection, introducing other-than-personal frames of reference. This is growth from the narrow you, to take up the view of the greater yous, to identify yourself with a vaster, more inclusive You. But let the process be conscious, & let us examine & allow the validity of the personal starting-point.
Index Card E-03
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