
But still it is a pro-found epistemological shock to have direct experience of this which we always knew. Of course, we all know that this is so-that mind creates the images which "we" then see.


As Ames' guinea pig, you discover that those mental processes by which you create the world in three-dimensional perspective are within your mind but totally unconscious and utterly beyond voluntary control. These are optical illusions in depth perception.

But the rest of us have gone astray into all sorts of false reifications of the "self" and separations between the "self" and "experience." For me another clue another moment when the nature of mind was for a moment clear-was provided by the famous experiments of Adelbert Ames, Jr.
