The claim that someone can see an aura is usually not only a claim about perceiving some information but also a claim of having a visual representation of it. To the extend that’s there are people who really experience it, it’s a form of synesthesia.
That seems true, but… I confess, I’m not sure why you’re saying it. It feels like you’re trying to tell me a relevant fact that I can use to answer my original question, or to approach it from another angle, or something. But if so, I’m failing to see how I can use it. Am I missing something?
My point is that the people who claim to see auras make a claim about having a visual perception of something.
Perceiving something as a “field of niceness” would be a more intuitive judgement. Whether or not the intuitive perception of a “field of niceness” is a real thing is a distinct question of whether someone actually has a visual perception of an aura.
Right, thanks. To be clear, I’m not suggesting that aura-viewers might perceive a niceness field *as* a niceness field; just that there might be some visual quality of an aura that suggests a niceness field. (I guess similar to how someone can look happy, even though I can’t perceive happiness directly.)
The claim that someone can see an aura is usually not only a claim about perceiving some information but also a claim of having a visual representation of it. To the extend that’s there are people who really experience it, it’s a form of synesthesia.
That seems true, but… I confess, I’m not sure why you’re saying it. It feels like you’re trying to tell me a relevant fact that I can use to answer my original question, or to approach it from another angle, or something. But if so, I’m failing to see how I can use it. Am I missing something?
My point is that the people who claim to see auras make a claim about having a visual perception of something.
Perceiving something as a “field of niceness” would be a more intuitive judgement. Whether or not the intuitive perception of a “field of niceness” is a real thing is a distinct question of whether someone actually has a visual perception of an aura.
Right, thanks. To be clear, I’m not suggesting that aura-viewers might perceive a niceness field *as* a niceness field; just that there might be some visual quality of an aura that suggests a niceness field. (I guess similar to how someone can look happy, even though I can’t perceive happiness directly.)