There is no such un-biased 'seeing'. All observation is, after all, theory-laden. But one can of course strive for objectivity. (Which really means, in practice, that no belief or 'view' is sacred: least of all one's own. As Hitch put it: 'Question everything.')https://twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal/status/986350983730073602 …
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This is getting complicated. Your 'layers' sound like 'levels of emergence'. But in any case: in which (if any) layers can seeing be made independent of 'expectation' ('searching for something')? And which are 'fundamental' - i.e. closer to 'seeing without searching'?
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Okay, a better example. Someone gives you the suspicion that they are a far-righter. As a result, you construe everything they say in line with this assumption. *This* is an unnecessary level of abstraction - a layer of complexity you have added yourself. It makes you search.
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