Heidegger

says joe:

> it is very difficult
> to construct construct sentences where the subject is an inanimate
> object and the verb is reflexive. one possible example: global warming
> is a self-correcting phenomenon because it will trigger an ice age. or
> maybe I should say ‘the earth self-corrects climate disturbances’

i should say that almost any ‘interesting’ domain of any complexity *can be*
said to be, e.g., self-sustaining, self-correcting, self-changing, etc;
i.e., they be emerging as by/with/from/of them selves, in a (greek) word:
physis.

• it is (not) raining

what is (not) raining?

the rain

or rather, the raining

or, raining is (not).

• a society changes (its self) {= social change, revolution, etc}

• the atom changes state (out of all the possible eigen values of the energy
levels of the outermost ’shell’ of the electrons, one obtains, e.g., in a
chemical reaction this atom ionises)

etc.

here there be no animate subjects ‘acting’ on objects…

inadequate, I know, but there you go

regards

michaelP

Posted on Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 at 5:05 pm
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