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Edmundson

In his essay, The Loss of the Creature, Walker Percy discusses how through preconceptions and the surrender of our sovereignty, humans lose the ability to experience life, and its elements, in fresh and innovative ways. He argues that humans have lost the surprise of discovery because of the preconceptions they bring to experience. He begins with an example of the visitor who, after many years of wanting to see the grand canyon, gets there and then measures his experience by the ideas and thoughts of what it should be. He later discusses the student in the biology lab, who does not have the surprise of discovery because the professor has set the parameters of the student's experience. I agree with Percy's position.

In his essay, he states, "the sightseer measures his satisfaction by the degree to which the canyon conforms to his preformed complex," and "the highest point, the term of the sightseer's satisfaction, is not the sovereign discovery of the thing before him; it is rather the measuring up of the thing to the criterion of the performed symbolic complex." Whenever we approach an experience, rather than perceiving it based on its own merits, we compare it to what we have already learned about the subject, or to what we h

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