THE1 Document
By Sid Thomas
Putting The “THE” Back In ATHENA
OR -Waxing Plato’s beard, again
From the Token side this time.
Section Ia. Analyzing The -- RTD
Bertrand Russell’s analysis of “the”, as it occurs in language used with intent to assert true or false propositions, standing in logical relations to other uses of language with similar intent, has been a paradigm of formal analysis for over a century now. Published in the article “On Denoting” in 1905, Russell’s Theory of Descriptions has achieved the status of Wikipedia abbreviation, RTD, alongside Descartes’ cogito, Plato’s Forms, Berkeley’s esse es percipi and the like, as instantly recognizable references to well known content. Such tokening of classical philosophical literature, as it might be called, conjoins with other types of condensed word constructs that make crypto words: acronyms (e.g. NIMBY); common abbreviations: NATO, NAFTA, EU, G7, POTUS, GOP, AIPAC, AEI, NYT; endless lists of movie titles, usernames, menus, TV channels; mantras, memes, mandalas, marionettes dancing on music box lids; Marsyas, Mercurialis, Marduk, Mercury, Meditations (Descartes, again); … (continue list of types of types of such condensed signs used in contemporary daily electronic communications). All of these meta-signs are double text-token sign uses, as will be explained below. Such discourse, predicating on clumps, regions, tiers and figures of other predications is the chief characteristic of post-second millennium communication. It is the efflorescence of a new form of subjectivity expressed in communication, one more aware of details, intellectually active, archetypically engaged in personal interaction by selecting, bouncing around, etc..
But it comes burdened by a fatal flaw: the way the psychic apparatus processes sign uses, and due to the incentives to prosper without punishment built into grammar, the public has no protection against meta-sign use that predicates on self-contradiction. A flip of the “the” with a false S* of S* abstraction, explained below, generates just such a degenerate case of sign use in communication.
The incentive is More Bang For The (Star)Buck(s); monetary value of condensation of most powerful, moving collective content. There is a compartment of each person’s conscious orientation that can use and take responsibility for “we” content – what “we” are experiencing, but as some “I” delegates their own as defining it. Lloyd deMause calls this the “delegate” position of consciousness and traces “we” use to shared unconscious fantasies that all are “children” of the same Mother’s womb, originating from actual fetal origins of everyone’s experience. This shared region of unconscious mental life and history --birth, rebirth, re-re-birth, re-….etc. etc. ad inf. – marks the deepest, oldest, broadest flow of human mental life force on earth. The Great Transition. Therefore what delivers the Biggest Bang in S*will deliver That (The Deliverance).
It is predication over prior self-contradictory predications that generates the degenerate case, and this is seen no as reversal of the Birth Transition to Death. Bizzare as it must seem on first hearing, the signs are that this has actually taken hold. An inverse birth is occurring, a “we” drive to shrink and return into Mother’s Womb from whence all were first born; entwined causally by token associations with the images and feelings marked as “DEATH”. The drive to return to the Womb, ‘press the restart button” and Be Born! all over again … and again … has become confluent with Thanatos, the desire to die. (Literalized as an instinctual death-seeking energy by later Freud.). (This conjunction was first made by Otto Rank.) Both drives, toward Life – Birth from the Womb – and Death – psychologically required to gain Re-Birth – are brought together, entwining like the snakes on Mercury’s Casadesus, in the symbolic ritual of war as sacrifice of children by the group acting collectively for Re-birth. When it comes to war for rebirth, profit and religion go together. They call for God to order them to do it, like he graced Abraham.
The formal sin committed in sign use, to return to that, is violation of rules for properly stratified discourse, in this instance inserting “God”, from transcendental discourse, into “God” of men’s earthly oaths and rituals. The way these are connected in fact is by actual mediating processes in the form of individual personal subjective processes, as by judges, priests, preachers. This is a psychosemiotic sin because it is impossible for the text (“God” as ens realisimmun, and umma bonum) to be completed in a human token totality. Only one man, Jesus, claimed such a union with a transcendent/-al reality, which by the nature of the case could only be unique (all other approaches only through His), and required to proclaim itself as such. Negating the ontology that one man, the Pope, could intelligibly be regarded as Christ’s literal vicar on earth, was what Martin Luther and Protestantism were all about. This assumption co-opts lordship fantasy in the Womb-surround.
The violation of substituting text for its own token – substituting F for x in “Fx”, read: “x is F” gives “F is F” – is self-predication. The rule proscribing this is derived from Russell’s other major logical paradigm, the theory of logical types (TLT). A predicate, as text, cannot boot-strap itself on its own token to gain outside truth. Failure to observe proper stratification in the text-token hierarchy leads ineluctably to the paradox of “predicates of all predicates that are not predicates of themselves”, which both must and cannot be as described. Such psychosemiotic monstrosities proliferate in crypto talk, greatly aided by use of “anti-“ to externalize attitudes.
The degenerative result of following what’s wrong for so long is the psychological condition Carl Jung called enantiodromia. This a Greek term for reversal of a one-sided orientation of consciousness into its opposite, as a result of its being carried to extremes. It is what happened in Bush’s America to Republican politics.
Illustration: <= 2.17.’09 CNN “Situation Room”’s Wolf Blitzer quotes a Rep. spokesperson claiming the party of fiscal conservatism ‘lost its way’ during the Bush years, following the easy path of overspending. This, while labeling Democrat’s attempt to cut military spending “tieing the hands of our troops shedding their blood on foreign battlefields to defend their right to protest.”
Now, they have seen the light, returned to their ideological Reaganesgue roots, and are obliged by conscience, concern for our children, their children, indeed, for all of God’s children of the future, to oppose this horrific spending package the Women Jew Democrats call a “stimulous”, like they do – always dressing Death up as sexy.
No, said Wolf, charges of inconsistency don’t trouble them. Who can prove they’ve done anything wrong?
Section Ib. (con’t.)
Russell’s analysis of “the present king of France”, the phrase, used as subject of predication, “…is bald”, construes “the” as part of a definite, as opposed to indefinite or general, description of some object of reference, theoretically replaceable by a proper name of the object in logically equivalent expressions: “the present king of France is bald” is true if and only if “ ---- is bald”, where “….” would be the place a name would occur, if there was one. Of course when Russell was writing, there wasn’t; that was the point of using that example, to analyze what happens, inferentially, when there is no nameable individual, as assumed.
The analysis of “the” supplied by RTD begins from, and itself predicates on the function of, discursive, fact stating language. As, indeed, philosophy itself has ever done, explicitly since Plato. There is a use of language according to reference; true or false; existent or non-; with common consistent features qualifying as organized knowledge, or science. If uses of signs per se is taken as the over-riding category of reference (metaphysical primitive) , this interest in sign-use (S*) specific to philosophy can be said to concern text. Text is what is expressed by grammar, the hypothetical totality of S* whose intent is cognitive.
However, shifting outside this totality, yet standing alongside philosophers and scientists, surveying the place from which cognition appears as only “one half” or “one side” of what any S* is communicating, there is use of language for a vast number of other purposes. Actual contexts -- conversation, ‘ordinary’ language – requires actual tokens, fungible particulars -- spoken words, inscribed letters, pictures, word-picture formats (cartoons, comics, movies, Youtubes, Tweets, etc.) – in formal settings, or frames. These empirical traces of sensory brain-firing present “the other half” of what is communicated on the actual occasion. These frames supply processing templates for linear word/idea sequencing. The sub-conscious psycho-neurological causal processes deposit the result of their firings, looping perceptual content back through the cortical brain, present sentential and other complex textual sequences that standing in logical relations to each other ‘seen’ by a separately functioning inner brain scanning quality and qualia.
The conjunction of the two independent flows-of-process, one causal, the other logical (Mercury’s Cadasus), is the unit S*, the ontological product of text x token. S* => (the) text of a content of consciousness; S* <= (the) token whose occurrence expresses the text.
Illustration 1: large case letters used to indicate Proper Names (<= doubled; token modification used to express intended reference to an individual).
Illustration 2: As empirical entities, tokens have material causes, while texts do not. Movement of the arm in intentionally drawing a circle illustrates knowledge of circularity transferred from brain 1 to brain 3, through vision-will brain 2 link.
Section II. The S* of S*
Double Text-Token Abstractor.
Uses and Abuses in metaphysics.
The predicate of a subject-predicate sentence “x is F*” distinguishes the mental content common to variable instances a, b, c, …etc.. What it refers to, or discriminates in perception in each case, can be mentally re-introduced by reviving tokens of the predicate sign, leaving names aside altogether, as indicated by the gap in “…is F”. This gives the a Quinean “open sentence”, replacing Russell’s “predicate”, but the difference is not important here.
This itself – the act of distinguishing what can be brought back by S*, parallel to but not causally on the same track as, what is causally brought back in perception – abstracts and bonds two repetitions as ‘universals’: qualities repeated in experience and tokens repeated in Sign use. The act of abstracting qualities from instances by name goes with, and without careful attention is confused with, the act of recalling the name; and, indeed, the fact that these occur on separate causal tracks is shown when a person misspeaks: “Oh? Did I call it blue? I meant red.” In general, the so-called “problem of universals” that has so taxed the great minds of philosophers since Plato, through the Christian Middle Ages, and into analytical philosophy of science, has turned a great deal, in my opinion, on this massa confusion, inability to distinguish tokens of text in communication from the other flow of qualities and qualia of experience. However, this is best shown in detail in contexts where it relevantly occurs.
When the text of a sign use S* is turned on itself, as a token, the resulting form S* of S*, a particular kind of “doubling” of the communication situation occurs. Just as a lecturer might pause, noticing their own perhaps exaggerated hand gesture, so the flow of attention through communication in general doubles back on itself when repetitions stand out. This “doubling back” ‘loops in’ secondary associations, including what can be abstracted from meta-S* constructs. Thus, when “the” is added, to give “the S* of S*”, it functions to bring back, and loop in, the mental, or subjective side of what it predicates. Thus: “the circularity of circles” becomes a construct on which valid predications can be made, since instances can be instantly produced on demand by moving a pencil. By this “of” relation (other prepositions can be used), turning the text of an S* on itself as a token, there is produced an abstraction of its “essence”, what it brings back from the side of the object by what is subjectively reproduced. This entirely internal construct, performed instinctively and mechanically, but nevertheless validly (if properly done), is the psychosemiotic key to Plato’s Theory of Forms. It is based on The Form of Forms double. Further back in history, preceding Plato’s use by 2000 years, had been the psychosemiotic condensation of The God of Gods personified by Marduk (also identified in ancient Sumerian mythology with the number 50). The Ram marking the Age of Aries on the Zodiac, followed by the Fish marking Pisces and the Waterbearer marking Aquarius are also double token-tautologies in primordial TokenSpace.
Example: From ancient Egypt derives a text attributed to the Great God Ptah titled “THE VOICE OF TRUTH”. This is a text-token double that would certify itself by predicating on the experience of what it communicates. (It would be hard to raise critical questions …)
Section III. Wrong “The” use
-to individuate abstracts from false constructs leading to predication on self-contradiction.
From “the unicorn” mythopoeisis Alexis Meinong
A Meinongian will distinguish what is real from what exists, arguing that some “the” expressions designate possible entities, whereas others, e.g., ‘the round square” do not. Thus, ‘the’ expressions must stand for something real, if only ‘mentally’, as an ‘idea’ --since logical distinctions are predicable of them; though not all exist. This position coincided historically with the philosophical idealism of F.H. Bradley, T.H. Green, Schopenhauer, Hegel, articulated most succinctly by Berkeley’s esse est percipi: to be is to be perceived. This is the metaphysical position that the objects of immediate and ineluctable certain knowledge in any and all cases is subjective: mental, not material. It takes the implication of the causal theory of sense perception worked through intellectually by John Locke, assuming the atomic-molecular theory of matter discovered in the 17th century. The physical world is not solid, as it seems to be in the space of three dimensions. “Solidity” is an “idea”, Hume pointed out next; the originals of all ideas occur in sense experience, Locke had also assumed. Thus the commonsense assumed world of material causes inhabited by people moving their bodies about in three dimensional space through time is a mental construct, a kind of illusion; yet containing all the reality any or all of them will ever know with ineluctable certainty. Thus, paradoxically, expansion of objective empirical knowledge of the universe by Newtonian physics was compensated by contraction of data given the knower to reason from. The given data are phenomenal qualities; colors alongside pangs of conscience in the same individual’s field of awareness. A kind of inversion of external-internal orientation of conscious perspective has occurred, concentrated by focusing the results of scientific theory on the process of sense perception. In reference to that process, the cause of perception of color quality begins from light reflected off a surface into the eye, stimulating nerves terminating on areas in the occipital lobe of the brain near Brocca’s area. It is the end result of this highly complex, mediated process, typically confluent with other nneurological firings from the same areas of the brain in order to form an articulate speech act (“I see a red spot on the wall, over there”), expressing what is called “perception of wall with a red spot.”
. However, 1. this is equivalent to saying merely that ‘the’ expressions do communicate sufficiently, by their grammatical form – have psychosemiotic sense – to call attention to and discuss. There is no need to introduce a “reality” for these “the’s” to “represent.” 2. RTD preserves the relevant logical distinction in the language of “exists” predicated with names. (‘Reality’ becomes a redundant and misleading construct, breeding => “metaphysics” with a false object language.)
*****
My Case against “the” : indiscriminate abstractor of S*- construct content…
From “the Fedora” to “the Duke” (‘the F’ => ‘the D’) => ‘The F-D’
- The word “the” can be used to generate perfectly ambiguous constructs, S* that require a third factor (an approbation: second brain contribution) to individuate the description. But when the third factor is added, the psychodynamic associations introduce a second grammatical up-take, so that an adjacent universe of discourse pops up having to do with something wildly different. The result can be Hillarious: a sudden text-token juxtaposition of opposites that jolts the processing systems. Or Devastating, as in the picture of Vice President misspelling “tomato” in a grade school classroom, avowing “the mind is an awful thing to waste”.
Section IV. Using “The” Best
-Valid arrangement of the approbative Pyramid hierarchy.
THE GOOD and The Good of the Good (Idea Beyond Reality)
-The BAD
-The Ugly (From movie title: shifting text to personified token)
THE TRUE,
-The False (and)
-The Illusory
THE BEAUTIFUL
-The Ugly (and)
-The Intolerable
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Yes, There Is No Magenta !
http://www.biotele.com/magenta.html
AMERIKA’S MAGENTA SOUL
Analysis of the white light spectrum show that magenta is not a real color. It is a color qualia created in the brain at the place in the spectrum of light waves opposite green, in the manner of feedback compensations supplied by optical nerves after staring at a dot for a minute, then looking at the background (where it reappears with opposite hue). This, together with argument from illusion,, mirage, perspective and much else (including quasi-sensory hallucination, lucid dreams, vivified intuition and the contents of all ‘high’ and ‘peak’ experiences) establish the phenomenal level of discourse, predicating on experience organized by the brain(s) of the perceptual apparatus, from data arising externally from many altogether independent causal sources, internally from sub-ordinate (reptile/mammalian brain) nodes.
AmeriKa, the collective entity sustained by self-delegated “we” sign users, taxpayers, official citizens, has been led under G.W. Bush and the Republicans to commit THE SIN OF SINS, following the Biblical Children of Israel at SIN.AI. (SIN the Moon God, Nannar; brother Marduk, father ENKI. .AI Mountain) Mountain of the Moon God Regression of the Children of Israel to worship of the Golden Calf, connected with Baal, Egyptian Osiris, and Seth, who defeats Sol, the Bull of Heaven, each night after its daylight passage has ruled the skies. In later psychosexual confabulations on this mythopoeic cosmology, during the night, by the light of SIN, Osiris’ sister Isis and Thoth re-assemble 13 of his dispersed parts, minus the phallus, but a wooden substitute is supplied to deliver his enormous mythic fecundity to birth Son Horus next morning (shining light of Father and Son are identical, and seen in the Eye). The Children were regressing to the Zodiacal age of Taurus, whereas Moses (circa 1500 b.c.) is bringing down another Law from SIN.AI intended to birth Sol/Horus in Aries. The sight of their SIN (<= transposed token) impels Moses to Break The Law; smash the very stone it is written on.
Applying the double text-token abstractor (se below), the Sin of Sins America has committed belongs to the same template as worship of the Golden Calf: the return to Taurus even from Aries, and sacrificing Pisces to boot, to arrive at the false Water Bearer (Staples) Soul of Aquarius. Please let this be heard.
The Soul, considered as the unified function of the second (post-reptilian, pre-cerebral) evolutionary mammalian brain, can be diagrammed as 7 continuous segments on a colored revolving moebius strip. These hues, seen in complimentary opposition to one another at any given stopping point, will lack an opposite for green, except for a false feedback magenta qualia formation caused by staring at one side (point) of a two-sided (+ background) surface a long time.
.AI is also: the Sin of AI.kan (Joshua 7). => Madoff
Artificial Intelligence
A. False brain processing model of syntactic speech analysis (textualist metaphysics).
B. False information on which war in Iraq was predicated.
The Sin of Sins in Group sign use is Predication on Self-Contradiction: a subject term that binds simultaneous affirmation and denial of an identical proposition. A conjunction of What Is with What Is Not; absolute incompatibles treated as One, a Unity. The very representation is an explicit sacrifice of Reason. And, indeed: since Reason can be consistently applied to the qualitative only from one side of the moebius at a time. Now, when the constant circular movement arrives at green, returning to it compulsively even as the Greenness of Planet Earth is disappearing, it is met on the inner side where the soul should be by magenta, SIN.AI soul color. This illusory spot, which IS and IS NOT, becomes a magnetic esoteric center attracting complimentary color bondings that improperly complete the trajectory around both sides of the moebius.
Example of self-contradictory way of being (predicated on false soul unity) is U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan.
aim: to win hearts and minds of Afghans
<= acts: drone bomb killing of hundreds of civilians.
These are inconsistent, but that is disguised by R. Holbrooke linking both as one policy.
Another example is the Democrat party drive toward “bipartisanship”, and “unity”, with Savage-Hannity-O’Reilly conservatives like Jim Adkisson, who killed with declared of political hatred of liberals. <= => Countered on the liberal side by Salon’s piece by filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, on “watching Republicans Grieve” – that’s what she called it – over the loss of the White House with Obama’s election. Sympathy for the white man. But Republicans are not grieving. That’s snake-brain recoil Ms. Pelosi is taken in by – similar symptoms.
AMERIKA’S MAGENTA SOUL
Analysis of the white light spectrum show that magenta is not a real color. It is a color qualia created in the brain at the place in the spectrum of light waves opposite green, in the manner of feedback compensations supplied by optical nerves after staring at a dot for a minute, then looking at the background (where it reappears with opposite hue). This, together with argument from illusion,, mirage, perspective and much else (including quasi-sensory hallucination, lucid dreams, vivified intuition and the contents of all ‘high’ and ‘peak’ experiences) establish the phenomenal level of discourse, predicating on experience organized by the brain(s) of the perceptual apparatus, from data arising externally from many altogether independent causal sources, internally from sub-ordinate (reptile/mammalian brain) nodes.
AmeriKa, the collective entity sustained by self-delegated “we” sign users, taxpayers, official citizens, has been led under G.W. Bush and the Republicans to commit THE SIN OF SINS, following the Biblical Children of Israel at SIN.AI. (SIN the Moon God, Nannar; brother Marduk, father ENKI. .AI Mountain) Mountain of the Moon God Regression of the Children of Israel to worship of the Golden Calf, connected with Baal, Egyptian Osiris, and Seth, who defeats Sol, the Bull of Heaven, each night after its daylight passage has ruled the skies. In later psychosexual confabulations on this mythopoeic cosmology, during the night, by the light of SIN, Osiris’ sister Isis and Thoth re-assemble 13 of his dispersed parts, minus the phallus, but a wooden substitute is supplied to deliver his enormous mythic fecundity to birth Son Horus next morning (shining light of Father and Son are identical, and seen in the Eye). The Children were regressing to the Zodiacal age of Taurus, whereas Moses (circa 1500 b.c.) is bringing down another Law from SIN.AI intended to birth Sol/Horus in Aries. The sight of their SIN (<= transposed token) impels Moses to Break The Law; smash the very stone it is written on.
Applying the double text-token abstractor (se below), the Sin of Sins America has committed belongs to the same template as worship of the Golden Calf: the return to Taurus even from Aries, and sacrificing Pisces to boot, to arrive at the false Water Bearer (Staples) Soul of Aquarius. Please let this be heard.
The Soul, considered as the unified function of the second (post-reptilian, pre-cerebral) evolutionary mammalian brain, can be diagrammed as 7 continuous segments on a colored revolving moebius strip. These hues, seen in complimentary opposition to one another at any given stopping point, will lack an opposite for green, except for a false feedback magenta qualia formation caused by staring at one side (point) of a two-sided (+ background) surface a long time.
.AI is also: the Sin of AI.kan (Joshua 7). => Madoff
Artificial Intelligence
A. False brain processing model of syntactic speech analysis (textualist metaphysics).
B. False information on which war in Iraq was predicated.
The Sin of Sins in Group sign use is Predication on Self-Contradiction: a subject term that binds simultaneous affirmation and denial of an identical proposition. A conjunction of What Is with What Is Not; absolute incompatibles treated as One, a Unity. The very representation is an explicit sacrifice of Reason. And, indeed: since Reason can be consistently applied to the qualitative only from one side of the moebius at a time. Now, when the constant circular movement arrives at green, returning to it compulsively even as the Greenness of Planet Earth is disappearing, it is met on the inner side where the soul should be by magenta, SIN.AI soul color. This illusory spot, which IS and IS NOT, becomes a magnetic esoteric center attracting complimentary color bondings that improperly complete the trajectory around both sides of the moebius.
Example of self-contradictory way of being (predicated on false soul unity) is U.S. foreign policy in Afghanistan.
aim: to win hearts and minds of Afghans
<= acts: drone bomb killing of hundreds of civilians.
These are inconsistent, but that is disguised by R. Holbrooke linking both as one policy.
Another example is the Democrat party drive toward “bipartisanship”, and “unity”, with Savage-Hannity-O’Reilly conservatives like Jim Adkisson, who killed with declared of political hatred of liberals. <= => Countered on the liberal side by Salon’s piece by filmmaker Alexandra Pelosi, on “watching Republicans Grieve” – that’s what she called it – over the loss of the White House with Obama’s election. Sympathy for the white man. But Republicans are not grieving. That’s snake-brain recoil Ms. Pelosi is taken in by – similar symptoms.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Post on Putnam
Reply to Post on Hillary Putnam (Original Dissent Forum -2.7.'09)
Yes, there are other consciousnesses. Maybe Putnam hasn’t got that far along in his understanding of what’s what (substitute the “R” term for “reality” here if you like). It’s one on the first things taught at Gurdjieff schools, the Teacher sees to that. The Teacher is “God” as far as this Putnam claptrap goes; and, if one is brought to the point of being able to actually observe themselves objectively -- which may take years, lifetimes, aeons in Purgatory (Texas) for Hasnamus individuals -- such high level recursive constructs as “reality”, “objectivity” “can’t step outside yourself”, “externalist” v “internalist” “point of view”, “mind”, “meaning”, “logic”, “inference”, and so on and so forth, ….one sees how the assumption of coherent verbal unity of a single Philosophical System For Brain 1 (thinking center of consciousness; vrs. Brain 2 – feeling, Brain 3 – moving) as posited by classical philosophers and theologians is psychosemiotically impossible. (contradicts the metaphysical conditions of discourse in general, which requires all three centers functioning to communicate common content by using signs, such as these words).
Putnam (I’ve actually has the barely comfortable experience of riding in the back seat of a car full of philosophers, going to an Upstate NY conference in the mid 60’s – pinched nose) got metaphysically lost, along with Rorty, Kripke, and all “philosophers of mind (language, speech acts, literature)” -- in the New Age Passover (see Like 22.10; compare with Mayan 2012 a.d., The Black Sun Nibiru, 1600 b.c. now returning) from Pisces philosophy, completed by logical empiricism (quantificational logic, with non-ramified theory of logical types* (to allow for fuzzy sets at lower predicate levels) ….passing over to Aquarius, the Age of Communication psychic flow of process philosophy. Think “OBAMA”. There’s philo in action for ya! (btw I’m a friend).
(As for the question itself: how does Putnam know God (if he dares actually use the word) isn’t Universal consciousness, with H.P.’s own one of His unfolded flowers? eh?)
There is no God’s Eye View of Reality
Thus spake Mr. Hilary Putnam in Reason, Truth, and History.
Putnam speaks of metaphysical realism and objectivism, from both an externalist and an internalist point of view.
Objectivism is a special case of metaphysical realism. Putnam argues that metaphysical realism is incoherent from an internalist perspective. This incoherence results from the impossibility of the externalist view; one cannot place the self outside of reality in order to find a unique perspective in which to view reality.
Putnam shows that the externalist view is logically impossible because metaphysical realism is formulated within symbol systems. “The metaphysical realist views of meaning, reference, knowledge, and understanding all make presuppositions about symbol systems and their interpretations that are logically incoherent.” Putnam argues that there cannot be “exactly one true and complete description of the ‘the way the world is’…there can be no God’s eye view of reality”.
Putnam is not arguing that there is no reality, i.e. basic realism, but only that the epistemology of the externalist view is logically incoherent. The problem rests on the assumption of the availability of a “God’s eye view”, which is inherent in the externalist perspective. We can not step outside of reality, we are part of reality. What is needed is an internalist view of reality, i.e. we must develop an epistemology that recognizes that we are functioning as part of reality and that it is impossible for us to just step outside and become an observer with a God’s eye point of view.
In place of metaphysical realism Putnam proposes another form of realism: internalist realism wherein we take a point of view in accordance with the human functioning within the world of objects and not externally from the object. To quote Putnam:
“I shall refer to it as the internalist perspective, because it is characteristic of this view to hold that what objects the world consists of? is a question that it only makes sense to ask within a theory of description…‘Truth’, in an internalist view, is some sort of (idealized) rational acceptability—some sort of ideal coherence of our beliefs with each other and with our experiences as those experiences are themselves represented in our belief system—and not correspondence with mind-independent ‘states of affairs’. There is no God’s Eye point of view that we can know or usefully imagine; there are only various points of view of actual persons reflecting various interests and purposes that their descriptions and theories subserve.”
Yes, there are other consciousnesses. Maybe Putnam hasn’t got that far along in his understanding of what’s what (substitute the “R” term for “reality” here if you like). It’s one on the first things taught at Gurdjieff schools, the Teacher sees to that. The Teacher is “God” as far as this Putnam claptrap goes; and, if one is brought to the point of being able to actually observe themselves objectively -- which may take years, lifetimes, aeons in Purgatory (Texas) for Hasnamus individuals -- such high level recursive constructs as “reality”, “objectivity” “can’t step outside yourself”, “externalist” v “internalist” “point of view”, “mind”, “meaning”, “logic”, “inference”, and so on and so forth, ….one sees how the assumption of coherent verbal unity of a single Philosophical System For Brain 1 (thinking center of consciousness; vrs. Brain 2 – feeling, Brain 3 – moving) as posited by classical philosophers and theologians is psychosemiotically impossible. (contradicts the metaphysical conditions of discourse in general, which requires all three centers functioning to communicate common content by using signs, such as these words).
Putnam (I’ve actually has the barely comfortable experience of riding in the back seat of a car full of philosophers, going to an Upstate NY conference in the mid 60’s – pinched nose) got metaphysically lost, along with Rorty, Kripke, and all “philosophers of mind (language, speech acts, literature)” -- in the New Age Passover (see Like 22.10; compare with Mayan 2012 a.d., The Black Sun Nibiru, 1600 b.c. now returning) from Pisces philosophy, completed by logical empiricism (quantificational logic, with non-ramified theory of logical types* (to allow for fuzzy sets at lower predicate levels) ….passing over to Aquarius, the Age of Communication psychic flow of process philosophy. Think “OBAMA”. There’s philo in action for ya! (btw I’m a friend).
(As for the question itself: how does Putnam know God (if he dares actually use the word) isn’t Universal consciousness, with H.P.’s own one of His unfolded flowers? eh?)
Monday, February 2, 2009
Dancing In TokenSpace
DANCING
With all three brains
IN TOKENSPACE
-While Playing Group Fantasy Tunes
Riffing Plato’s Air Guitar
SUMMARY OF WORLD NEWS TODAY
The numbers 2210 - 2012 link the text of Luke to the sun’s passing over from Pisces to Aquarius by the sign of the water bearer.
2012 is the date assigned by researchers to the Return of Nibiru, Planet X. to its nearest approach to earth.
The date 1.20.2009, President Obama’s inauguration, is interspersed, marking
WHITE BLACK
+
Man (skin) soul
-Exchange of opposites following commitment of the Sin of Sins
(Philosophical excerpt:
-The S* of S* form of sign use can be called Plato’s Text-token Abstractor, a recursive mechanism built into hard-wired re-uptake of signs used as Names, when repeated in situations apart from their designata, reassociated by the token with the common subject content – counted as its ‘essence’. This assigns the name to two different mem-brains, explaining the role of “doubling”. Rx.: The Word ‘Word’ contains the essence of all words as its meaning: of itself, first, then all other applications. When the names apply to content present only in the upper triad (of the 7-tier hierarchy of S*), generically called ‘thoughts’ by Descartes, they were taken to denote pure intellectual relationships, as given in mathematics and geometry, as forms of knowledge apart from, but applicable to, objects given in sense perception (the lower triad of S*) )
-SIN was originally the moon god of Ancient Phoenecian/Canaanites.
-AI was ancient Egyptian for “Mountain”
-SIN.AI, from which the Children of IS.RA.EL received the 10 commandments (Exodus 20) is the mountain of Sin, the moon God.
S* Syncretism
IS - IS -- splitting the Egyptian Goddess ISIS Cf. AB. – (father)
-SUN – RA -- splitting Egyptian monoGod -- .RAM (Aries)
- .. .. .. .. .. EL -- Marduk Sumerian revenant.
Also: AB. … father
RAM … Zodiacal Aries.
+ RA => AB.RA.-AM –Zodiacal patron/patriarch personifying the Spirit of the age following Taurus, The Bull
The moon is the dark, feminine side of the two large heavenly bodies circling earth, borrowing it’s light from the sun, as we understand, and learned ancients knew. However, they counted Darkness as a positive quality, not merely absence of Light. Fear of darkness is every child’s reminder of oppressive late term experience of fetal origins, when torso is cramped, oxygen depleted, waste disposal inefficient; followed by passing through the birth canal; followed by First Breath and Light (VICTORY AT SEA!); a template of before-during-after repeated perpetually ever after in: A. the bio-rhythms of sleeping and waking states of consciousness; and B. the cycles of day and night marked by exchange of dominance of sun and moon.
The importance of this reification of Darkness is it becomes an abstracted psychic reality, as if exerting a mysterious ‘power’ over the person by what or who ever elicited the feared trauma reaction. The deepest, oldest stratum of neuro-biological imprinting brought back by Darkness are, from the standpoint of later experience and regression, the Mother -- as fearful Witch <= the Strangling Monstrous Poisonous Placenta of fantasized return to the womb. This “dark’ side of the conscious experience which rises each morning after nighttime sleep is feared because it was painful. Loss of it’s sight leaves the body helpless. “The Dark” thus acquires a double referent: external, in the moon-Sin mountain; internal, in the Mother-Placenta Monster. TEN COMMANDMENTS are given as law to ‘children’ passing over from captivity in Egypt to birth in the promised land.
Those who live in Sin live in Darkness. They worship the Moon Goddess, the Mother, like Freud said. The incest taboo is the demand of the Father to leave the Darkness of Sin and turn toward the light. The penalty for not doing so, Adam and Eve were told back in Eden, is death But the serpent (snake brain) already knew that this was only figurative – referring to death of the soul (brain 2). Which, however, is indeed death to the person as a completing totality. (They can remain 2/3 alive.) But living in sin, but with the fear of darkness overcome, is a regression. When Moses came down from SIN.AI with the tablets and found them worshipping the Golden Calf of Canaanite/Phoenecian Baal (the EL in IS.RA.EL), he BROKE THE LAW (literal origin of the metaphor) at the sight of their regression. It was as if they did not inwardly want to turn away from the Dark Mother Egypt and Be Born.
The Sin of Sins, turning directly to the Platonic Text-token abstractor, would lie in reversing the positions of Light and Dark in sign use – specifically, sacrifice of the Son of the Sun, Christ, to the Moon-Mother God Sin.
Putin’ it all together
OBAMA: (following McGovern, Carter,
THE DEBT OF SIN
-Redeeming the Good (Light) side of the white man’s soul,
having taken back onto himself the surface ‘racism’ based on skin color (Dark).
This is the psychodynamics that got him elected. It fits with the Illuminati agenda of preying on white man’s guilt, and intra-group differences, to usher in commitments to global issues, by generalization. Thus, America is converted ipso facto into an instrument of neoconized (anti-Chriatian) morality of the SIN type.
-As Beloved One – anointed, was the word most often used for his inauguration; recalling ritual phallic ointment – Bringer of Light (Lucifer), he is also Sol Niger, incarnate. (Sol => the Sun; niger => Dark: Sol Niger DARK SUN )
His father was a black man, his mother Midwestern native American. Thus by blood lines, and following the British-Admiralty law citizenship, an Adoptee. But this is the personal side of the Unconscious, speaking with Jung. Precisely by virtue of this (matching the white Father-Son template of 41 -43 Bushs), his Cosmic/celestial Group-fantasy status blends with the visuals (staged events, TV, Press conferences, patriotic celebrations, etc.) of AMERICA’S FIRST MULTICULTURAL PRESIDENCY -- PREGNANT WITH THE FUTURE.
`
The Honeymoon was short lived. Direct from Hollywood boutiques, darkskinned girls who love babies can now produced several at a time. OBAMA’S FIRST PATRIARCHAL DECISION WILL BE HOW TO PROVIDE FOR 8 PEEMIES ETC. FROM NOW ON. (“TIP OF THE ICEBERG -- )
Sol.0-moon (or Sol-om-on, depending on how you parse should have had it so good. (My hint: let only the anti-abortionists be care givers; that might chill their fervor, or confine it to religious precincts where it belongs.) And Clinton only had to deal with “Don’t laugh, don’t tell.”
In short, DEBT of the SIN OF SINS, committed by Bush Father-Son dyad, is to be paid off by Sol Niger, the white man’s skin-soul inverse, blending mythologized Transpersonal Global patronage with a post 60’s American adopted son. That is why many were crying “HEY! WE DON’T KNOW THIS MAN!”. It is this transcendental aura, linking the 4’s (inside each 8 hemispheres) that was invading their consciousness; they could feel, but not understand, what his presence was bringing in. Chicago ward politics, ambience of right wing University of Chicago neocon guru Schwartz (political unity comes from opposing common enemies – by negativity) provided a personal background myth.
And at this point, we square the internal –external cosmic circle. The Dark Sun rising on the inner side by the unconfronted, unrepentetant SINNERS SQUARED is met now in Zodiacal Psychohistory by NIBIRU’S RETURN.
THE BLACK SUN BROUGHT BY THE BLACK SON
IS AVATAR OF HITLER’S 4TH REICH.
*****
This is the group fantasy read-out of OBAMA . HE HAS BEEN DELEGATED TO PAY OFF THE DEBT OF THE AGES AND MARK THE TRANSCENDENTAL TRANSIT FROM PISCES TO AQUARIUS IN TOKENSPACE.
With all three brains
IN TOKENSPACE
-While Playing Group Fantasy Tunes
Riffing Plato’s Air Guitar
SUMMARY OF WORLD NEWS TODAY
The numbers 2210 - 2012 link the text of Luke to the sun’s passing over from Pisces to Aquarius by the sign of the water bearer.
2012 is the date assigned by researchers to the Return of Nibiru, Planet X. to its nearest approach to earth.
The date 1.20.2009, President Obama’s inauguration, is interspersed, marking
WHITE BLACK
+
Man (skin) soul
-Exchange of opposites following commitment of the Sin of Sins
(Philosophical excerpt:
-The S* of S* form of sign use can be called Plato’s Text-token Abstractor, a recursive mechanism built into hard-wired re-uptake of signs used as Names, when repeated in situations apart from their designata, reassociated by the token with the common subject content – counted as its ‘essence’. This assigns the name to two different mem-brains, explaining the role of “doubling”. Rx.: The Word ‘Word’ contains the essence of all words as its meaning: of itself, first, then all other applications. When the names apply to content present only in the upper triad (of the 7-tier hierarchy of S*), generically called ‘thoughts’ by Descartes, they were taken to denote pure intellectual relationships, as given in mathematics and geometry, as forms of knowledge apart from, but applicable to, objects given in sense perception (the lower triad of S*) )
-SIN was originally the moon god of Ancient Phoenecian/Canaanites.
-AI was ancient Egyptian for “Mountain”
-SIN.AI, from which the Children of IS.RA.EL received the 10 commandments (Exodus 20) is the mountain of Sin, the moon God.
S* Syncretism
IS - IS -- splitting the Egyptian Goddess ISIS Cf. AB. – (father)
-SUN – RA -- splitting Egyptian monoGod -- .RAM (Aries)
- .. .. .. .. .. EL -- Marduk Sumerian revenant.
Also: AB. … father
RAM … Zodiacal Aries.
+ RA => AB.RA.-AM –Zodiacal patron/patriarch personifying the Spirit of the age following Taurus, The Bull
The moon is the dark, feminine side of the two large heavenly bodies circling earth, borrowing it’s light from the sun, as we understand, and learned ancients knew. However, they counted Darkness as a positive quality, not merely absence of Light. Fear of darkness is every child’s reminder of oppressive late term experience of fetal origins, when torso is cramped, oxygen depleted, waste disposal inefficient; followed by passing through the birth canal; followed by First Breath and Light (VICTORY AT SEA!); a template of before-during-after repeated perpetually ever after in: A. the bio-rhythms of sleeping and waking states of consciousness; and B. the cycles of day and night marked by exchange of dominance of sun and moon.
The importance of this reification of Darkness is it becomes an abstracted psychic reality, as if exerting a mysterious ‘power’ over the person by what or who ever elicited the feared trauma reaction. The deepest, oldest stratum of neuro-biological imprinting brought back by Darkness are, from the standpoint of later experience and regression, the Mother -- as fearful Witch <= the Strangling Monstrous Poisonous Placenta of fantasized return to the womb. This “dark’ side of the conscious experience which rises each morning after nighttime sleep is feared because it was painful. Loss of it’s sight leaves the body helpless. “The Dark” thus acquires a double referent: external, in the moon-Sin mountain; internal, in the Mother-Placenta Monster. TEN COMMANDMENTS are given as law to ‘children’ passing over from captivity in Egypt to birth in the promised land.
Those who live in Sin live in Darkness. They worship the Moon Goddess, the Mother, like Freud said. The incest taboo is the demand of the Father to leave the Darkness of Sin and turn toward the light. The penalty for not doing so, Adam and Eve were told back in Eden, is death But the serpent (snake brain) already knew that this was only figurative – referring to death of the soul (brain 2). Which, however, is indeed death to the person as a completing totality. (They can remain 2/3 alive.) But living in sin, but with the fear of darkness overcome, is a regression. When Moses came down from SIN.AI with the tablets and found them worshipping the Golden Calf of Canaanite/Phoenecian Baal (the EL in IS.RA.EL), he BROKE THE LAW (literal origin of the metaphor) at the sight of their regression. It was as if they did not inwardly want to turn away from the Dark Mother Egypt and Be Born.
The Sin of Sins, turning directly to the Platonic Text-token abstractor, would lie in reversing the positions of Light and Dark in sign use – specifically, sacrifice of the Son of the Sun, Christ, to the Moon-Mother God Sin.
Putin’ it all together
OBAMA: (following McGovern, Carter,
THE DEBT OF SIN
-Redeeming the Good (Light) side of the white man’s soul,
having taken back onto himself the surface ‘racism’ based on skin color (Dark).
This is the psychodynamics that got him elected. It fits with the Illuminati agenda of preying on white man’s guilt, and intra-group differences, to usher in commitments to global issues, by generalization. Thus, America is converted ipso facto into an instrument of neoconized (anti-Chriatian) morality of the SIN type.
-As Beloved One – anointed, was the word most often used for his inauguration; recalling ritual phallic ointment – Bringer of Light (Lucifer), he is also Sol Niger, incarnate. (Sol => the Sun; niger => Dark: Sol Niger DARK SUN )
His father was a black man, his mother Midwestern native American. Thus by blood lines, and following the British-Admiralty law citizenship, an Adoptee. But this is the personal side of the Unconscious, speaking with Jung. Precisely by virtue of this (matching the white Father-Son template of 41 -43 Bushs), his Cosmic/celestial Group-fantasy status blends with the visuals (staged events, TV, Press conferences, patriotic celebrations, etc.) of AMERICA’S FIRST MULTICULTURAL PRESIDENCY -- PREGNANT WITH THE FUTURE.
`
The Honeymoon was short lived. Direct from Hollywood boutiques, darkskinned girls who love babies can now produced several at a time. OBAMA’S FIRST PATRIARCHAL DECISION WILL BE HOW TO PROVIDE FOR 8 PEEMIES ETC. FROM NOW ON. (“TIP OF THE ICEBERG -- )
Sol.0-moon (or Sol-om-on, depending on how you parse should have had it so good. (My hint: let only the anti-abortionists be care givers; that might chill their fervor, or confine it to religious precincts where it belongs.) And Clinton only had to deal with “Don’t laugh, don’t tell.”
In short, DEBT of the SIN OF SINS, committed by Bush Father-Son dyad, is to be paid off by Sol Niger, the white man’s skin-soul inverse, blending mythologized Transpersonal Global patronage with a post 60’s American adopted son. That is why many were crying “HEY! WE DON’T KNOW THIS MAN!”. It is this transcendental aura, linking the 4’s (inside each 8 hemispheres) that was invading their consciousness; they could feel, but not understand, what his presence was bringing in. Chicago ward politics, ambience of right wing University of Chicago neocon guru Schwartz (political unity comes from opposing common enemies – by negativity) provided a personal background myth.
And at this point, we square the internal –external cosmic circle. The Dark Sun rising on the inner side by the unconfronted, unrepentetant SINNERS SQUARED is met now in Zodiacal Psychohistory by NIBIRU’S RETURN.
THE BLACK SUN BROUGHT BY THE BLACK SON
IS AVATAR OF HITLER’S 4TH REICH.
*****
This is the group fantasy read-out of OBAMA . HE HAS BEEN DELEGATED TO PAY OFF THE DEBT OF THE AGES AND MARK THE TRANSCENDENTAL TRANSIT FROM PISCES TO AQUARIUS IN TOKENSPACE.
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)
