A small comment concerning some recent messages. So far as I know, there is
NO CHAT orthodoxy, but a fuzzy-set, "family" of ideas/intuitions/theories
that have cultural mediation at their core and genetic/historical methodologies
as their tools.
See ya'll next weekend.
mike
--- -----------------------------Quote Mead---------------------------The so-called sensuous character of things disappear when we have stated them in terms of electrons, and these sensuous characters of things are dependent upon the presence of the structure of the organism of the indidvidual. What we obtain is an abstract statement of the conditions under which these characters appear; in other words, we get an explanation of them, not an analysis of them *as they are*.... These [sensuous] characters have actually emerged in the objects and not simply in the individuals, and our statement must include them as actually belonging to the object in the perspective of the individual where they exist. One thing that this certainly involves is according to the objects the future and the past which belongs to them in the perceptual world, as over against the knife-edge present which the exact physical sciences have set up as the ideal of measurements. It is only in the *useful fiction* of that present that things are made up of physical particles, for the complete contemporaneity of the particle with ourselves in our effective occupation of space implies the loss of all the distance characters.... It is only in representation that the world exists in the specious present, and it is only in the *fiction* of our exact sciences that it exists at an instant. [PA pp. 225-6; my emphases]