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Friday, August 31, 2007
 
The problem with René.
Just imagine, as Descartes did, that we can be liberated from the constraint of the body and exist only as pure thought. What greater freedom could one possibly enjoy? No longer bound by space or time, such a being would be free to traverse the universe at will. Except that such an undifferentiated and locationless being, no longer tensed in time, would be unable to separate past, present and future or to separate here from there. With no fixed abode in time or space there would be no means by which experience could be determinate and no features to discriminate the specific from the general. It is precisely the constraint of a body, existing in the here and now, which enables a specific viewpoint to flourish and an independent existence to announce itself.
  4:46 AM
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...er, our temporality allows us to undergo changes, but does the possibility of change require us to exist within this time that we find ourselves within, this space-time?
# posted by Blogger Martin Cooke : 1:50 AM
 
Finitude imposes some constraints, and so does coping with the world we find ourselves in. But the space-time we find ourselves in is also our own projection. Your moods change, things change. The world changes, you change.
# posted by Blogger enowning : 7:22 AM
 
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