Date sent: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 17:53:11 +1100
From: Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: Re: Phenomenology
To: extropians@extropy.com
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> At 05:04 PM 11/02/00 -0600, Joe Dees wrote:
>
> <a precise of various people's views of stuff, adding: >
>
> >My addition to this is that the
> >complex referencing
> >structure of contexture is, on the level of definition rather than
> >positionality, also the structure of sign/sign relations in sign
> >systems, and that the relations between these symbolic
> >contexture maps and the territories of the perception/action
> >contextures are sign/signified relations. Self-[c]onsciousness
> >learns/constructs, utilizes and traverses these systems.
>
> And? So?
>
> Damien
> [who manfully refrained from employing the standard Deesian method of
> reply, which would have required 15 more pages of complete pointless
> citation of the prior post]
>
So it's interesting and perhaps useful to figure out things, and that
which seems at first blush to be central and fundamental (the
ontology of human consciousness) has a pretty good chance of
being significant. If it's correct, knowledge has been advanced; if
not, we close off an unprodictive alternative, which also can lead to
an advance in knowledge (of what's NOT true). Some people would
rather play pinochle; I'm not one of them.
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