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Wednesday, 4 April 2018



Experience is structured, that what makes it experience, and structure implies articulation of parts, but it entails no metaphysical conclusions about those parts or their articulation. For example, it does not require that the parts have an existence independent of their role in the structure momentarily realised as experience, and certainly not that such an existence has any meaning at all in relation to a projected non-existence. Articulation however means that not all parts are present in the same way. The idea of existence might mean fulfillable in further related but different articulations, like reverse-engineering some performance. The articulations are themselves articulated, structure is structured in local transparency, which simply means that the subject as both an element in the structure and at the same time the active imagination of the very same structure is always displaced in relation to itself. That's just the way it is, you are creating the entire performance at the same times as always showing up as a particular locus within the performance. This is why you can never understand how you can be conscious and consciousness at the same time. The folk understanding of this is that it is paradoxical and needs metaphysics to be made any sense of, and that would be an error if there were actually an agent to be guilty of such an error.

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