Is there really one clearly defined subject ?
I see the subject as an inside perceiving an outside, or rather as an
infinite nesting of insides, because if at some level the nesting stops, at
this level there is no inside, only outside, then no spirit, only matter.
See
http://www.webb.net/sites/log/text/metaphys/nest.htm
This means that the notions of subject and object depend on the level
considerated. Something can be subject at some level and object at a deeper
level.
Concerning the question : can the subject become an object for himself ?
this means that a subject at some level can be decomposed at a deeper level
into a deeper subject and an object part, and this object part can become an
object for the deeper subject part.
The outside can be seen as the understood part of the reality, and the
inside as the not yet understood. This infinite nesting can be seen as an
infinite series of physical theories more and more precize.
See
http://www.webb.net/sites/log/text/reflmph/english/naturesp.htm
We must also be aware that the subject is not one but a multiplicity : the
brain is a society of neurons. I think that the impression of unity comes
from the fact that there are much more communications between the neurons of
a brain than between the neurons and the outside world.
See
http://www.webb.net/sites/log/text/reflmph/english/indiv.htm
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-----Original Message-----
From: Romanos Avaqian [mailto:rom.domain.name.hidden]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 1999 6:33 PM
To: everything-list.domain.name.hidden
Subject: Who is the subject?
Guys,
Before long talks about consciousness, may be there is a sense to discuss at
first who/what is the subject of perception ? The world is the object, the
intellect is the tool, but who/what is the subject? Who perceives ?
The second important question: can the subject be perceived ? Otherwise
saying: can the subject become an object for himself ?
Romanos Avaqian
e-mail: rom.domain.name.hidden
Received on Fri Jul 09 1999 - 05:57:42 PDT