Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
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Against the use of nature.”

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This view is confirmed by the fact that we only feel images to be “unreal” when we already

know them to be images. Images cannot be defined by the feeling of unreality, because when we falsely believe an image to be a sensation, as in the case of dreams, it feels just as real as if it were a sensation. Our feeling of unreality results from our having already realized that we are dealing with an image. As soon as an image begins to deceive us as to its status, it also deceives us as to its correlations, which are what we mean by its “reality”.

Stout  (loc. Cit., p.127) cites: “One characteristic mark of what we agree in calling sensation is its mode of production. It is caused by what we call a stimulus. A stimulus is always some condition external to the nervous system itself and operating upon it.”

“Most of our judgments of perception involve correlations, as when we judge that a certain noise is that of a passing cart. Such judgments are all obviously liable to error, since there is no correlation of which we have a right to be certain that it is invariable.”

Excerpt from “Sensations and Images”

“The Analysis of Mind” by Bertrand Russell

Life is getting better these days, living in a small beautiful American town with no hypes. The day I came here, everything was like a haunted ghostly snowy town, as the spring sprung… somebody has swished the magic wand… the whole place became beautiful in a week… somehow felt that I always don’t look the beauty that’s around me…

People here are good, professionals and lives life without any hypocrisy. They speak straight… The team i’m working with likes the indian food a lot, but for some reason i always hesitate to go to a indian restaurant, because i don’t want to forget the indian taste. May be these restaurants should be renames as Indo-American restaurants, as the food here is cooked for americans and sadly not for indians. We cannot blame them when pizza hut in india sells tandoori pizzas and desi pizzas…

once when i felt bored with indian food, madhuri cooked  good indian food and reminded me of the indian taste.

Also met prabha after a long time… one good soul i wanted to meet in US of A. we planned for the tulip show at holand, but missed the trip due to rain.

Slowly mingling with the American crowd… learning poker, mountain biking, golf during weekends… there are amazing trails in short drive… also learning to cook fudges, American, Thai cuisine and of course slowly honing my amateur photographic skills…

Some Photographs of Michigan at http://www.logukrishnan.net/photos/michigan