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Wednesday, 18 December 2019
There are various contents of the mind clustered in patterns of interdependent and grammatical (or 'grammatological') relationship. Any such relationship has a profile in the dimension of subject/object, or equivalently of independent/dependent, which does not amount to a full-blown instantiation of these terms, but something more like a difference of potential. At any rate, the point is to perceive the ongoing contents of mind in this multi-tracked and multi-dependent form. In such a structure the veritable or veritably virtual Subject is that unique node which is relatively more subject than every other node in the network. If the existence of such a point is not immediately self-evident it can be constructed via a well-established limit process - which to the layman might be called meditation. The fact that such a node can always be called into being is not an ontological truth but simply a mathematical truth about the kind of structure involved and its operative rules of inference. Mathematical limits like this are first grasped intuitively via somatic intentional structures, the latent embodied language of spatio-temporal gestures. This intuition is strictly metaphorical and entirely out of keeping with the level of abstraction required. But mathematical limits also have a more rigorous definition, one that is utterly flat and atemporal, completely devoid of any gestural dependence. The Self or Subject can also be grasped in this way and it is powerfully free from all thought. This doesn't make it true, but its parameters are new kind of reality that invites further investigation.
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