Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 23:29:17 -0700
Subject: Re: Clarity


i'm a bit shocked that anthony misunderstood me as he did.  i'm really
disorganized.  as a brief summary of my position:

-  thinker as distinct from thought
-  thinker "thinks" precisely through praxis.  "knows" other beings as
being related in actual encounter.
-  contemplative thought or psychological activity is calculative and
either technological in the sense of manipulating in the realm of things or
behavioral in the sense of thingifying in the realm of relationship with
the other.  the "occurring" world of thingly things.  this is the world of
everydayness or the practical world and is the result of the end of
philosophy (metaphysics) as manifested in information and the completion of
the sciences.  .. cybernetics.  when one is grounded psychologically it
isn't *necessarily* a pseudo-audible "little voice" that determines
behavior.  it is a mechanistic behavioral system as the very ground that
gives us.  it is the way we are known by the other.  whatever qualities
constitute an individual as individual.  an identity.  a who we are.  not
merely a what we contemplatively think.  it is sub-consciously being an
identity. (in the realm of psychology) so we obliviously behave a very
certain way.  absorbed in our ontic concerns.
-  my *descriptions* are just that.  not to be confused with a carefully
designed and *proven* technology that enables this new mode of being human.
 i've not discussed the enabling technology in any way here.  to reiterate.
 in my view this technology is language in that it grants access to being.
it is, in and of itself, a disposable device.  it is like a car.  the point
is not to live in the car.  but to get to where you're going.

it is easy to fall into the ol' fallacy of infinite regression.  i don't
believe anything and i really believe that.

NO!

when being Being.  there are no concepts or beliefs as a grounding of our
being even tho concepts (enabling technology) were used as a scaffolding.


Robert T. Guevara   | guevara-AT-rain.org
Electrical Engineer | guevarb-AT-mugu.navy.mil
Camarillo CA, USA   | http://www.rain.org/~guevara


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