"simultaneous sensations get blurred together as referring to unified objects and subjects,
but temporally discrete sensations also become ‘unified.’
For instance the belief arises that the apple I picked up and bit is the same apple I continue to eat,
and finally the eaten apple was one integral object just as the eater was one integral subject."
These psycho-linguistic cognitive errors are errors precisely because they are inferences displacing actual perception."
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"The statement or belief, ‘I ate an apple,’ is an expression of a set of inferences based on discrete sensations in which, technically speaking, in the absence of those inferences, no “I” or “apple” occur.
The error arises when the inference substitutes itself for the sensation in such a way as to mask the inferential origins.
Inferential aggregations come to be experienced as perceived ‘identities’."