First stimulus and the chain of conception

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Epistemologically, the first stimulus (my first stimulus) is sensory. It is of the things in the world, including the reflexive sensing of myself as a thing. The evidence is, things are known by sensation, and also things remain regardless whether being sensed or perceived.

You cannot perceive what is not first sensed. And you cannot conceive what is not first perceived. No chain of conception can occur without the first stimulus.

The chain of conception is the illusion of a self. The self is a conception.

From the change in the relationship of things in space

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Time also cannot to be known without things and space. I know what time is from the change of relationship of things in space.

From the relationship of things

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Space cannot be known without things. I know what space is from the relationship of things.

Self and other unawareness

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I call them things because at the first confrontation I don’t know what they are, simply that they are. Without interaction with things I do not know more of their qualities. First, I observe. Next, I engage.

Note, I do not know “I” either at this stage.

The first confrontation

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There are things. At the first confrontation with things we are unaware of sensing, perceiving, and conceiving (together, let us call them “observing” or “observation”). I am also not aware of myself as an observing thing at this point. Simply, things are “there”; and they exist or “be”.

Revisiting philosophical projectionism

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It is very easy to mistake the thing for the representation. So the projection is not upon the thing as such but the representation. This was the propositional mistake I made in the original post.

In the end we must first project upon the representation of the thing, not directly upon the thing. It is never possible to do so, even though it seems like that is what we are doing.

things

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The world is the totality of facts, not of things. (Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus)

I think Wittgenstein is wrong.

The world is the totality of things, not of facts.

To be sure, his assertion is a firm rejection of materialism. I firmly reassert it. What remains always are things, not facts, not souls. This is an inducted reason. Like a good philosophical citizen, I do not claim deduction.

Logic has its failings. It regards language as flawless a medium for expressing ideas. It is far from it. Philosophy must investigate language as well.

Today, everything exists to end up on the internet.

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“That most logical of nineteenth-century aesthetes, Mallarmé, said that everything exists in the world in order to end in a book. Today, everything exists to end in a photograph.” (Susan Sontag, On Photography, p24, 1971)

In 2019, everything exists to end up on the internet.

Coma, time, idealism

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Within a comatose state the body is without wakefulness and awareness of the eternal world. Is this a kind of idealist-rationalist bliss? If such a mind can survive without having to deal with the outside, would it remain in this state to do so?

It is interesting that coma patients when they recover do not know how much time has passed since they became comatose. Is this not evidence that time is only known observation of the change in the relationship of things. In other words, do we not have to be awake and aware of the environment to know time?