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Tuesday, 7 February 2017
Of course you cannot point to anything that is not consciousness. Pointing, a function of thought, is so late in the game that by the time you have reached it all openings have been shut down. Is feeling, the feeling of what happens, more open and hence conscious than thinking? This is like a rivalry between the hemispheres of the brain. Your thinking is always associated with feeling, it is for example, heavy or light, dark or bright, fluid or stagnant, and it is always the utterance of a certain character, tied one of the masks or personae that the self adopts - the ideal of perfectly disembodied thought exists but is massively overdetermined. And in the same way feelings always mean something, they are self-interpreting, even as they seek to overwhelm and silence the discursive, to be all in all. Feeling seeks to evade the mind or make it redundant, as if we could drug ourselves on feeling, become perfectly snug in the body. But you cannot be perfectly snug unless there is a storm raging outside. The situation of feeling is to be alone and on the edge of the great void - you might call it vertigo or nausea, but whatever it is it is the background of every formation of feeling, and hence of thought as well. Does feeling then have an immediate and non-thetic apprehension of what is not consciousness? Perhaps it does, but it is unwise to believe feeling. The whole thing is a performance, it can change its character in a flash. The only constant is the silent witness.
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