Date: Fri, 23 Dec 1994 01:02:53 -0600 (CST)
From: CND7750-AT-utarlg.uta.edu
Subject: RE: habits, brains, machines


In D&R 'habit' is the passive synthsis that functions as the force of the 
general in any system of thuoght. "...while generality may well be quite
different from repetition, it nevertheless refers to repetition as the hidden
 basis on which it is constructed." (p. 75) Now, in ATP D&G write that the 
abstract machine is the passive element of pure function that acts as the force
that synthesizes assemblages, that is, that makes them return in redundant form.Both habit and the abstract machine are the passive synthses which coexist,
on a virtual level, with actually assembled matters. In D&R, Deleuze says that
all of what is thought to be 'psychology' is habit. All thinking and centempla-
tion is habit. Both habit and the abstract machine thus 'insist' or 'subsist'
in all forms of 'actualized' or 'extended' matter. And here lies the philosphic
 importance of the emphasis of Time over space that Deleuze oftens apeaks about.This is described plainly in BERGSONISM, DIFFERENCE AND REPETITION, and CINEMA
   2. Something does not recall or remember some object because it has left
behind a trace, but rather because it continues to exist in full reality--in
virtuality. Deleuze writes that when one senses something one has to be in its
presence. Thus when one remembers semething one has to be in its presence too.
   A passage on Bergson from C2 describes this:

...just as we perceive things where they are present in space, we remember 
where they have passed, in time, and we go out of ourselves just as much in
 each case. (p. 98).

the force that does this remembering is habit. force of habit. in WIP?, this 
force that thinks is called a 'machinic brain-force' or 'brain-subject.' 
 Brains are not limited to human synapses, but are rather the abstract machine
 that cross-cuts the chaos, that functions as the perturber of matter. "the
movement-image and matter are strictly the same thing" (C1, p. 59). But matter
does not exists alone, virtual time subsist in it. ah  Habits and abstract
machines are the codes that function in matter, as the 'intensive' force
 of 'extensive' space. Time, or the code (that can be more or less molar or
molecular) that insists in space has its i own pecular Topology that must
 be 'diagrammed.'

   does this clarify any? i realize that if you have not read all that i am
talking about, it will appear to be 'non-sense.' but this is how i understand
   Deleuze to connect habit, abstract machine, and brain. Thinking is thus 
   somehting that everything does, not just subjects with nervous systems.

chris


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