Sunday, 25 October 2020

Owning Existence and why Existentialism is nonsense

 So the great problem since Descartes and beyond is Mind and Body. Our experience of the world and the world itself are different. And when we try and locate our experience in the world we have a problem. SRH is here already. Somewhere in the world must be our experiences, but our experiences are of that world. Either their is a secret space we cannot experience where they reside e.g. soul or we have an overlap. Anyway that's the introduction.

The problem for a Capitalist is that we try and own this Mind and these experiences and if we believe in secret spaces those also.

And then perhaps we get struck by their existence which is Real. Often experiences get demoted as just subjective personal perspectives. [running out of power will finish later] but that they exist cannot be denied.

For Descartes the existence of thoughts proved that he himself existed. He was more than owner of those thoughts, he was those thoughts.

But quickly we can see that existence is just existence and its nothing special to us. That one day we won't exist is not a revelation and is nothing personal its just a fact about existence.

Indeed their is nothing personal about existence. So why the dread about non-existence? By existing and non-exiting we join the universe of things. It is a binding experience not a separating experience that Sartre saw.

And why did Sartre see this? Because deep down he was a Capitalist and viewed self and existence in terms of ownership.



Often we demote reality. For Plato's Idealism in his cave physical reality was demoted as an imperfect copy of Ideals in a realm apart from the world. The modern material view inverts this so that computers and brains make imperfect models of a Real existing external world. Phenomenology would demote both these views as both Plato's Ideals and the Materialist Ideal of Physical Reality are just ideas. Reality lies in experience or Phenomena. This is very much more aligned with Eastern Philosophy that sees thoughts and ideas as just sense processes alongside sight and sound. In the West much is placed upon the value of Narrative (ideas) while in the East, Narrative is itself an observable process. In Buddhism everything is demoted to the same level, which is also no level.

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