Dear At,
On page one
Personal Knowledge Towards a Post-Critical Philosophy by
Michael Polanyi
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0226672883/learningorg
(Objectivity)
Polanyi speaks of the Ptolemaic system being overthrown by Mr
Copernicus... and he goes on immediately by way of metaphoring filmic
motion, a 'main feature film' as it happens;-) to seek a truer meaning
(perspective and space) for the meaning of mankind within the encompassing
whole. He seeks objectivity;-) and he introduces that which dear old
Bertrand Russell called '-the constraint among all our human constraints',
viz. Time. He (Polanyi) now reduces us in Time to next to nothing ;-) and
then in matters;-) of mass he reduces us to nothing again. NO I lie, next
to nothing again. And he says, while still metaphorically on the (his)
first page that, never can it be objectively thus. Why? Because this would
lead us he posits to 'absurdity'... (as if we were not 'absurd' already
and anyway against what we might become.. or have become...or might yet
become to be;-) and he finishes his fine first page with the idea that Mr.
C. in fact just offered us collectively the 'delightful' substitution of
abstract theorising for our sensory modality(ness).... Now, my problem is
that I only have the first page to this book... that it begins thus and I
have then looking over my shoulder a notion. It's a simple notion. That
all time is NOW TIME and that everything other than NOW TIME is really no
time but a 'tag' (verbiage) of time...so that Polanyi's notions of 'time'
are absurd and that with NOW TIME which I take to be a biological
(unabstarct in the first person) phenomenon puts man back at the centre of
the (his) universe (multiversa?), wheelingly Whitmanesque or otherwise. It
is, I think, then, that it is we who rise in the east and fall in the
west, and because so we might spin that, our reality, into that orbit,
again just as one day we might be spun right out of that orbit, again...
indeed. And. Are such thoughts as 'personal knowledge' like what I seam;-)
to have had even possible ;-) ?
Love,
Andrew
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