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Transcendental Aesthetic

    Kant Pt II Space and Time and The Cognitive Model of Experience “ Bill : Yeah dude, it’s like, I just think it’s kinda messed up that like, because space and time are the forms of pure sensible intuition they can’t like... be... Ted : Intuited? Bill : Yeah! And because of that, even though they’re the framework in which all experiences happen, we can never... Ted : experience Space and Time because... Bill : they themselves the conditions under which they are experienced … Both : Whoaa ” -Excerpt from rejected Bill and Ted script The framework of intuitions which are the means that all objects are presented to us, or given to us, or affect us, is Space and Time. Space is the sense of outer objects, time is the sense of inner change. That is all you really need to know about that. You cannot have one without the other, at least when communicating with another person. The people that have no sense of either in their communication were historically deemed schizophrenic. ...
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   I regret to inform you that for the next year I will be reading Kant's Critique of Pure Reason -------- Skip This Section if you don't want my background--------     I won't be starting it quite yet though, I have to give some background on my approach and literacy, as any true Kantian would. I did not study philosophy academically, my undergraduate degree is in Biology and my actual career is related to molecular biology. I have been reading Hard Philosophical Texts (with accompany lectures/podcasts) (at work, on the clock) for about three years. The first one I read through was Being and Time by Martin Heidegger, the second was Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, and the third was Peter Strawson's Bounds of Sense, I've also read the first third of Robert Brandom's Spirit of Trust (on semantics and epistemology). Those are largely what inform my views and takes on philosophy I read. I read (past tense, here) them loosely, narratively, took what I could, ign...
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Parsing Wittgenstein using Heidegger

These are some thoughts on Wittgenstein and (pre-Kehre) Heidegger, on their approaches and how they might articulate a scenario's outcomes
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THE CYBER ENLIGHTENMENT

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The space occupied by the Cyber Writer is made of non-bound, non-tied elements, 'floating signifiers' whose very identity is 'open', overdetermined in by their articulation in a chain with other elements..." -Slavoj Zizek "The modes of occasioning, the four causes, are at play, then, within the bringing-forth. The cyber [techne] enframes the gestell, man does not have control over unconcealment itself, in which at any time the actual shows itself or withdraws" -Martin Heidegger "Anywhere the German goes he destroys culture, my writing was never German. I used the language, but it was cyber! Although the cattle could not hear it!" -Friedrich Nietzsche ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE CYBER ENLIGHTENMENT ...
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