Lots of great stuff here. You've got my head buzzing about the way we group our perceptions around "uses." I remember reading some book a long time ago that defined a living creature as anything that "brings forth a world." That is, if it reacted to stimuli and responded to environmental pressures, that creature's world consisted of those stimuli and pressures. It seems to tie in with your uses argument.
It's spooky how we seemed to be thinking about the same things at the same time today. I was just writing about the subjectivity of perception, and then the way we replace the cells in our bodies, all while you were writing about replacing a ship board by board and how we categorize objects as objects.
any brick will do as well as any other, so any brick is as good as any other as far as I am concerned.
And now I've got Pink Floyd running through my head.
Interesting phrasing. Can you locate that book? A google search gives me a 'Santiago theory'.
The theory as you go on to explain it sounds more like empiricism, the idea that we are blank slates that get written on depending on what we encounter.
I've been awfully busy lately and haven't been giving as much attention to your posts! I vote them when I can, but don't read! I'll go and read the one you mentioned now.
No worries - I've got to run some errands at the moment too. I'll see if I can track down that title.