The the Conceptual-Perceptual stage, our concepts act as powerful screens though which we see the world.
7. Concept-Perceptual: So what is left to discuss? Perhaps the most important stage of all. Itās like the puppy who wags his tail.
The puppy is the percept and the tail in the concept. In time, however, the tail becomes so immense that the tail wags the dog.
We need the percept to develop the concept. But once we have the concept it becomes a powerful screen (like a pair of binoculars, a microscope, and an Xray machine combined) through which we see the world. We no longer see the world as children but decode every experience in the light of what we already know about it.
The child sees an ice cream cone and eats it and enjoys it. I see it, eat it, and feel pangs of guilt and remorse because I know it is adding to the store of fat cells I keep promising to shed, etc.