From: gvcarter-AT-purdue.edu Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 21:20:19 -0500 Subject: Re: Intelligence of man, God, Nature. Hugh suggests: > Science leads me to believe that Nature created Man, who created gods, and > eventually a single God. This narrative gave the priests indisputable > power so long as they convinced their flock that they were the only ones who > knew God's will. "Nature's" narrative? Does Nature have a story to tell? Right now I'm reading Jane Marie Todd's Autobiographics in Freud and Derrida wherein she tries traces Freud's narrative of the Rat Man, the Rat Man's narrative via Freud, and James Strachey's narrative of Freud's narrative of the Rat Man via a revision of THAT narrative. All this is to say (this time via Heidegger) that Science's narrative of Nature may, well, be non-self-reflective. Heidegger quotes Max Planck: "Reality is what can be rendered measurable." But such measures--such as a single God--forgets the human life-world (i.e. the politics of attaching Mohammed to the Christian tale which attached itself to a Jewish narrative.) I don't know: attaching "indisputable power" to INDIVIDUAL priests seems, to me, to be just as egregious as attaching power to ONE god. I mean, the narrative you posit is possible-plausible, but I'm not so sure it leads to a Laws of Nature? Laws of the (un)natural maybe, but not Nature-qua-Nature. "What intelligent humans do," Hugh (You) suggest, is build from "senses/memory/learing." To quote Cage again--indulge, next wk it will meister eckhart =)--quoting Duchamp: "He says, more or less, that one must strain to reach the impossibility of remembering, even when experience goes from an object to its double...If we didn't have this power of forgetfulness, if art today didn't help us forget, we would be submerged, drowned under those avalanches of rigorously identical objects." But Hugh (You) say it better: > Other animals with other senses inhabit other worlds. gc
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