Andy
First there were other argumentations .
Second : to your question : Consciousness itself .
Third : This was just a telegraphic note but the problem persists .
Embodiment is to put something in a body . Then we have two things . The
cover and the covered . In principle , the necessity of putting that
something -- ideal -- in a body is that itself is not of the same genus
. That's for you to expect ideals be buried there in the mysterious
hidden box yet not quite well known , indefinable ! at times , stopped ,
deceased , so life is also defunct .
I can also give *subjectivity , subjectness* ; can you show me a
palpable thing called *subjectivity* and it's representational ,
secondary , derived .
Haydi
--- On *Sat, 9/26/09, Andy Blunden /<ablunden@mira.net>/* wrote:
From: Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net>
Subject: Re: [xmca] Consciousness "only a part of the material
quality of the man-sign"
To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009, 9:57 AM
Haydi, you can't talk of "Language *aside from* the modality in
which it is embodied" and then say "language is not material." Of
course, anything "aside from" its materiality is immaterial. Show me
a representational system which is *not* "embiodied."
Andy
Haydi Zulfei wrote:
> Dear Andy
> Language itself aside from the modality in which it is
formed/embodied and as it is consisted of signs is ideal for the
folowing reasons : 1. We have read on many occasions that it's a
formant of the Cs . When you are dealing with the Cs as something
catogirically distinct from the material which is quite quite true ,
why is it you could accept a formant of this something categorically
distinct from *material* could be all the way *material* . This is
just where Martin finds the opportunity to argue for a doubling of
*materiality* . A statue as such is ideal the same way real talers
as well as Gods are ideal for Marx (previous post) . Real talers or
money paper are things palpable , corporeal , stuffy , substantial ;
yet they are for Marx ideal ; the yardstick is that they are
representations for something *esle* . The talerness of the talers
and the statueness of a statue need a social thinking body to be
recognized as such . Aside from the social thought/Cs , the whole
things become just use values , valueless , lacking any exchange
value as for Marx . And we shouldn't forget the second
> condition Lenin mentions either . As of language , the ink , the
carbon or the acoustics with which it is embodied does not make it
*material* the same way *stone* , *bronze* , *cement* , *plastics*
of a staue do not make the *form* -- not contrasting content here --
of the statueness *material* ; the form now indicates Lincoln , now
Lenin , now so and so . But the stone , etc. remain the same all the
time . This latter part you name categorically *material* to this
day distinct from the *ideal* as Cs is . A clock consists of many
many parts , that is , many corporals , materials , use values ;
but all these should be organized in such a way to represent
something else , time measurement . The palpability or the visuality
of the clock should not take us where we could say it's something
material . See what of the three divisions of Peirce fits this .
When you take the ideality of the language away from it , the whole
sentence/text/book becomes ink
> spilt/scattered over the paper out of neglect . Your example of
*carved in stone* incidentally helps us to get the gist quite easily
; you , in fact , take some materiality away from the stone so that
a language becomes eligible for the readers . What remains as some
markings or signs no longer have any materiality ; the remaining
stone frame does not have anything to do with the language carved in
it . This is also true with the braille texture . It's the
organization/ordinance of the texture which is a language not the
stuff therefrom . When you and Mike are on the screen lipreading
each other in non-acoustics silence , you , in fact , have a
telepathy version of language ; you're this way exchanging your
mentalities with no materiality at hand . The computer is modality
for your vision not for the language you are using . And lastly ,
because a word is a sign , something for something else , in itself
! just a yelling or a marking denoting nothing as referring to the
objects of the world which you so philosophically / inexaustively
are defending !
> Best
> Haydi
> --- On Sat, 9/26/09, Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net
<http://us.mc464.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ablunden@mira.net>> wrote:
>
>
> From: Andy Blunden <ablunden@mira.net
<http://us.mc464.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=ablunden@mira.net>>
> Subject: Re: [xmca] Consciousness "only a part of the material
quality of the man-sign"
> To: "Haydi Zulfei" <haydizulfei@yahoo.com
<http://us.mc464.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=haydizulfei@yahoo.com>>
> Date: Saturday, September 26, 2009, 12:26 AM
>
>
> Language is a material representational system, Haydi.
>
> Language may be in speech (vibrations in the air), text (markings
on a surface or optical projections on a screen or carved in stone)
or texture (as in Braille), but there is no mental telepathy version
of language that I know of.
>
> Why do you think the written and spoken word is not material?
>
> Andy
> Haydi Zulfei wrote:
>> Now you ask Martin to tell you a representational system which
is not *material* . I tell you *language* is a system which is not
material.
>
>
>
>
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