Re: Merleau-Ponty and Theory of Mind - a follow up to my first video, general discussion.

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[SpiritualAtheist]

I'm never quite sure what exactly you mean when you use the word "world". In one sense it sounds like a projection of one's experience. Are there then just a bunch of experiences out which a single world emerges and we somehow all participate in? It sounds like a kind of group solipsism, which strikes me as incoherent. But then I probably just don't understand the idea you're trying to convey. Thanks.

[0ThouArtThat0]

A world is what is brought forth when organisms co-produce domains of relevant meaning. In the Cartesian tradition, "world" tends to mean something the subject is parachuted into as if from outside and comes to know via accurate internal representation. "World" in the sense I used it is not a subjective projection, but an achievement of communities of beings with similar interests. There are many worlds, not just one. But it is not solipsistic, b/c other worlds are always interrupting ours...

[0ThouArtThat0]

Human cultures, for instance, know themselves only because they've confronted and been forced to structurally couple with other cultures (and their worlds). It is the interpenetration of worlds that makes life so interesting, as you're never quite sure where you'll find yourself next.

[Professoranton]

It is so delightful to hear someone speak so clearly and use terms so tightly and attuned their meaning within intellectual and historical traditions. It is a spiritual achievement to struggle to learn the meaning of words as others use them.

Thanks so much for this. A real gem!

[0ThouArtThat0]

Thanks Corey! I've been so wrapped up in writing lately... Holons will be up and rolling again as soon as the semester is over. Hope we can have you on again for a discussion.

[conferencereport]

The reference you make to 'structural coupling' between embodied human cognitive processes as key to 'mind' seems particularly signiticant to me. The implication seems to be that different couplings would suggest different 'mindings'. Are you familiar with the 'In My Language' video /watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc

? I may be over-interpreting but it seems to me to be pointing toward a very different (autistic) coupling which is not limited to and constructed by the intersubjective.

[0ThouArtThat0]

Different couplings suggest different "mindings" and different shared worlds of meaning (the "material," we could say, stays the same, but the semiotics can be so transformed that we may as well refer to different worlds).

I'm not familiar with that video, but I'll give it a look.

[Shadapaga]

do you study philosophy at UCF?

[miguelbinha]

Man, you are so eloquent! Isn't this amazing? To question and not be afraid to be vulnerable. To be open and authentic. Man, you are my reconnection to what is essential whenever the caves' shackles tighten up! I come to Youtube and hear you and remember who I really am.

[2levina]

What is it that is meant by 'The Look' in phenomenology (in the sense of, 'who is it that is before me, who is this other?'

[egoistorms]

thank you for the content

[Aspie37]

Do you know about Asperger Syndrome?

[atolborg]

How amusing. I just "criticized" your video reply on God for being too artistic. Now I watch this video where your style is different :)

Do you relate to "emergence of multiple selves" given multiple situations? Do you relate to the idea of us suffering from change blindness in relation to the emergence of our self. That in some way it is misjudging to speak of "a particular self"? And that it is more suitable to say that we bring forth suited selves to deal with (the breakdowns of) the world?

[whitejadesamadhi]

did you use the term "grok"? heinlein, no?

[peace97914101]

I do find it quite funny that people base their existance off a machine. A computer. A robot. Not a smart idea I would say.

[peace97914101]

So let me ask you something else son. So when my friends get on here and start using this site., and they do not act or speak the way you dictate as they should are you going to say the same things. Are you going to assume as to people and there mental state or expression? Hmmmm? Seems to me that you will.

[peace97914101]

If you want me to like you MaBu888 you will learn how to keep that trap of yours closed.