Friday, 13 August 2021

Intuition

https://www.cairn.info/revue-internationale-de-philosophie-2003-2-page-57.htm

The usual footnote to spontaneous entries in @247ofthat on twitter.

I claim - whilst waiting for a better term - that intuition is from memory. The above piece - I'm not knowingly a subscriber to the late philosopher - helps me argue what it is that obscures - Spinoza dodging credit to art; prefering the Turing stripes of crystallized time? - the "snobs' ESP".
Our bodies (I'm aware that I'm suspected of Cartesianism. I'm with the notion, whilst Johnathan Ree's work hasn't gotten my full attendance, that Descartes was simply as inept a materialist as the new ones are now. I think that accounts enough for the persistence of the triadism body, soul, world that it doesn't take a genius to note. Indeed the medium of theartre, its simulcration by the novel, makes Descartes just a typical inferentialist trying to sell an instrumentalism?) are more than the human has ever been, as each to their own. This stimulation, holobiontic expansion, haptic immediacy, hyperrealism (I do owe some credit to Eco  for my early acquitance with partitioning off consumerist spirits (to paraphrase Keynes and new-ageism that also persists - I have a spirit algorithm, maybe) has left me challenged for a simile. That's clutter of representations, nothing new to the human. Consider Ockham, Scotus and others. It is striking that Augustine is the one who claims an autobiographic memory, and the body is its tension. That's to say - I don't doubt some Shakespeare is evading me; Why wouldn't it be Cymbeline rather than Titus Andronicus? - the drift that the New Historicism has dessicated into anti-woke new (old) conservative leftish like Fabian Hobbesians with flotsam began on this matter that is a serious problem in Marx's "science", the way of the flesh etc, is what our progress - human - is all of only: technology. A different dialectic, synthesis (that old trinity) has held us in a cognitive stance that, at least we are better for getting what body does, shuffles through representations. So to the point: the body so has become a technology.
At the end of that point I insist that intuition is from our memory, not "imagination" and not symbolic dependent as much as breaking symbols is the next step, that first step that makes a difference...

Lila R Gleitman's conclusions are interesting in respect of shattering the Mirror-Stage fixation (something that Marc Hauser, of regrettable circumstances maybe to near to truth, also got caught in?). I also note Critical Theorist Andrew Feenberg who remains in action as a wanderer in the shadow of progress, though I'm still to catch up with that turn out of the Marxist cul-de-sac.

Anyways. My hourly thought, after every minute on ecological crises, you bet, is with the power game played on the people of Afghanistan. Tip, China and Saud are quite the pals and the US would get post-Putin Russia out of this mess. I don't dismiss Biden has the Pentagon geared to an outcome that is may be provoked by Taliban stupidity. The situation is terrifying for Afghans.

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