Anybody here read Husserl? I've been checking him out and he describes this process called 'noesis' to explain how perception works as a relationship between an object and an observer.
>Husserl maintained that in addition to physical objects and shapes and so on, there are also colors and sounds in the external world. Like all objects in the external world, these objects can be experienced from different perspectives. An example he gives is the sound of an orchestra playing in a concert hall. That sound is experienced differently depending on where you are sitting in the hall or, if you are late, whether you are standing o u tside and hear it through closed doors. It is the same sound, but it sounds different. The objective phases of experience for Husserl are therefore shapes, sounds, colors, and so on. In the case of shapes, it is easy to follow him. We all know from epistemology the example of a round table top. The shape is round but appears different, depending on where we are located relative to the top. Now Husserl claims that the same thing holds for sounds and colors and so on.
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Is this not basically how the modern scientific understanding of perception is supposed to work?