Heidegger

In a message dated 01/08/2009 19:49:41 GMT Standard Time, Bernx at aol.com
writes:

In a message dated 8/1/2009 12:26:44 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
GEVANS613 at aol.com writes:

Final Formula for Rejecting the Plausible but False Cartesian Cogito.

Descartes discounted, or was obviously ignorant of the nature of the
reflexive role of the pronominal discourse referent *I.* Its function is that of
self-referential specificity (the quality of particularising one’s own
self - rather than generalising the *other.*) From the perspective of a
participant in an act of speech or writing *I* is anaphorically linked to and is
capable of initiating and selectively instantiating a vast multitude of
data from the immense complexity of a human’s experiential biography and the
linguistically-based, antecedally composed, neurological chronicle of his
or her life.

Thus in his illocutionary attempt to create a basic existential
ontological proof or axiom, his choice of the pronominal referent of the *I* for
inclusion in his spurious sentence: *I think - therefore I am* was probably
the worst possible word he could have chosen as a head word in his ill judged
cogito.

As every utterer of the *I* word is aware, *I* is a referential term which
derives its reference from antecedency, or the thinking, flesh and blood
state or condition of being physically and neurologically antecedent . Thus,
in the absence of a referential antecedent the word *I* would be
neuro-linguistically inaccessible to an entity which was no longer extant. The first
person pronoun *I* is the most powerful referent in any language. *I*
conveys the utmost informational recall as to personal identity, self knowledge
and understanding of an individual’s history, beliefs, goals, abilities
and occurrent realisation of his or her current state of connectedness with
the surrounding environment.

Any person who upon uttering the pronoun *I* seriously claims that they do
not know who, or what they are, and appear bereft of the cognitive
processes whereby their experience is remembered, or persists in stating that they
remain incognisant of his or her identity - must be judged to be either
temporarily or permanently brain damaged, or at least profoundly
neurologically disturbed, or traumatised to such an extent that their engrammic memory
traces - the biochemical changes encoded in their neural tissue that
represent what we call memory is no longer accessible.

Best wishes,

Jud Evans

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Reifications - like biological entozoa are gut-enculturations which are
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necessarily reliant upon nor benignly disposed to the welfare of their
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Sincerely,

Jud Evans.

Private Website: _http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/index.htm_
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*Common sense and a sense of humour are the same thing, moving at
different speeds. A sense of humour is just common sense, dancing.*
(William James.)

Posted on Sunday, August 9th, 2009 at 6:00 am
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