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I have meditated more on this notion of imagination in the frameworks of abstraction and what they call “possible worlds.” MAny conceed that we cannot exit our experience (or perspective) in this realm of reality. But then they go on to press that we can occupy some other form of conciousness, a third-person or possibly worse, some big Other. IF there is no essential components of who we are, then it seems to follow that everything, everyone, everyplace, everymoment we ARE is foundationally a part of “us.” Then how can we imagine being one foot taller?!(refrence to earlier conversations)
It is a lie, the worst lie, not based on any sort of understanding. Any “possible world” where I am one foot taller is completely out of the reach of my understanding. I cannot capture the whole of reality, myself, or even the simpliest components. So then why should I lie and paint myself as master of understanding, aginary manipulations, and creativity? I understand the world as the “me” right now, and if that “me” changes, so does the way I understand the world/reality. We can banter with our theoretics all day, but this is all a lie, a misspeaking about reality, words of nonsense tied together by mass misunderstanding. We cannot take a snapshot of existence, warp it, and then assert an understanding of change and reality itself. This is to commit the worst kind of atrocity in philosophy, this “illumination” is a plague of blindness on our minds. To understand existence without history is to undermine understanding itself. It is as to assert a notion in which its own birth is its death, its own addition is its negation. In this way we say nothing and promote its indefinite nihilism.
To propose reality with no past is to speak only of nonreality, of nonexistence. For even our concious mind knows this, and by default relies on history to understand.
What is the now without the past?! It is nihilism.
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I ask my 3rd grade Taiwan students to underline words that they do not understand. I only had to underline two words. Good blog Max.