Modern people, especially those educated in verbal concepts, often are not holistic perceivers; they perceive according to invented categories that blind them to wholeness.

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• Most educated people do not see the wholeness of the world around them; words and learning distort perception.claim0.837
  Generalisation from the Radcliffe experiment, linking education to loss of holistic perception.
• Often the conceptual picture a person has of a place is an invented convention at odds with the wholeness that exists, and it is even difficult for modern people to see the wholeness.claim0.806
  Epistemological/phenomenological claim about perception.
• Late-20th-century holistic science still describes mechanisms; it has not overcome the mechanistic character of its models.claim0.793
  Even the beautiful descriptions of wholeness by scientists like Mae-Wan Ho remain mechanistic in detail and have not solved the bifurcation.
• Almost every person experiences the making of wholeness, like food.claim0.792
  Generalization from personal and student experience.
• A typical modern human is a patchwork of many diverse consciousnesses, only one of which verbally reports its states.claim0.792
  Applies the multi-scale agency view to human cognition, suggesting non-unitary selves.
• Under the spell of modernist concepts, planners and officials became confused about the real wholeness, could no longer see it, and thus failed to act in structure-preserving ways.claim0.790
  Psychological effect of modernist ideology.
• If someone develops clear enough introspection, they will eventually conclude that thought is rendered as subtle perturbations in phenomenal fields.hypothesis0.786
  Cube Flipper's prediction about convergence of insight practice on field model.
• For the first time in modern history, ways of thinking are available that make the criteria for 'living' potentially sharable and actually shared.claim0.784
  Asserts that the theoretical foundation laid out in the four books provides a public quality standard for sequences.