pynchon agnostic? II

[thomas kyhn rovsing hjoernet]

On 04/03/03 22:32, "Keith McMullen" <keithsz at concentric.net> wrote:

>>>> Don't know about that. How do human sense organs describe phenomena? And,
> how do they identify them? Don't they just register stimuli and leave
> identification and description to another instance?<<<

> And where and by whom are the 'stimuli' registered, much less identified and
> described?

What I mean is that 'human sense organs' don't 'describe' or 'identify'
stimuli but transmit them to the brain. By all means correct me if I'm wrong
in assuming this.
 
> We Westerners are programmed to put Descartes before the whores.

Wasn't that Descartes a whore himself?