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British philosopher J.R. Lucas agrees with Langer that perception is based upon the creative and formulative process of decision-making. He argues further that there are no abstract facts or events to form decisions, rather internal decisions form and shape the world of external facts and events. Facts and events, while having their own external counterpoints, from the perspective of individual perception are entirely limited by internal processes and decisions. He explains, “There are few facts if any that we cannot in our metaphysical moments be uncertain of, our concept of truth is regressive.” That is, our experiences are trapped in the regression of past tense and interpretation. We are constantly living a split-second after the fact, and so our thoughts are creative and formulative interpretations and decisions of the external events we experience. We live in our memory of events and our interpretations of facts, and according to Lucas this all an internal, creative decision.

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