{"id":11336,"date":"2026-11-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=11336"},"modified":"2026-09-05T18:48:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T18:48:03","slug":"looking-at-alva-noes-book-2023-entanglement-part-23-of-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raziemah.com\/blog\/?p=11336","title":{"rendered":"Looking at Alva Noe&#8217;s Book (2023) &#8220;Entanglement&#8221;\u00a0 (Part 23 of 24)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>0297 Does the shifty reorientation infer that the regular person, following the intuition of Aristotle, ends up &#8220;entangling&#8221; scientific sensible construction with aesthetic work?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does the layman confound the positivist intellect<sub>3a<\/sub> (for the reorientation) with disciplinary language<sub>3b<\/sub> (for the scientist) with what I experience<sub>3b<\/sub> (for the general interscope) and style<sub>3b<\/sub> (instead of aesthetic or technical work<sub>3b<\/sub>)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0298 Dr. Noe exits the laboratory and enters the real world, filled with regular people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, I find out that his argument leads to a re-orientation that supports the claim that common folk cannot distinguish scientific work from aesthetic work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0299 It makes me wonder whether <em>things themselves<\/em> belong to <em>the dyadic realm of actuality<sub>2<\/sub><\/em> or <em>the monadic world of possibility<sub>1<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0300 Section one of chapter twelve (S1C12, &#8220;Creatures of Our Own Creation&#8221; (S1) in &#8220;Nature After Art&#8221; (C12)), starts with a discussion of &#8220;binocular-rivalry&#8221; and &#8220;aspect-shifting&#8221;.&nbsp; Usually, one regards an ambiguous form as composed on one matter (rabbit) or another (duck).&nbsp; But, there is the third frame where one is aware that both matters, one originating and one entangled, are in play.&nbsp; <em>Confoundings<\/em> can be <em>dangerous<\/em>.&nbsp; <em>Confoundings<\/em> resolve in <em>many ways<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0301 The author is a modernist, who does not have a technical definition where &#8220;entanglement&#8221; is integral to a &#8220;confounding&#8221;.&nbsp; Nonetheless, Dr. Noe&#8217;s vision is worthy of &#8220;engagement&#8221;, because he is on target with the idea that the normal context of <em>what makes us who we are<sub>3c<\/sub><\/em> operates on <em>the potential of &#8216;art and philosophy&#8217;<sub>1c<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0302 He proposes that <em>art and philosophy<sub>1c<\/sub><\/em> may support <em>a reorientation<sub>2c<\/sub>,<\/em> where <em>new processes<sub>2cm<\/sub> and constitutions<sub>2cf<\/sub><\/em> are <em>socially constructed<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0303 However, he does not grasp that <em>the aesthetic work of art and philosophy<sub>1c<\/sub><\/em> may enrich and add value to <em>established processes<sub>2cm<\/sub> and constitutions<sub>2cf<\/sub><\/em> (R, see points 0157-0160).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He only grasps that <em>the aesthetic work of art and philosophy<sub>1c<\/sub><\/em> can resist <em>established principles<sub>2bm<\/sub> and embodiments<sub>2bf<\/sub><\/em> (S).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0304 Finally, lest I forget stating the obvious, bad art and bad philosophy<sub>1b<\/sub> may destroy established processes<sub>2cm<\/sub> and constitutions<sub>2cf<\/sub> without any awareness that these things<sub>2c<\/sub> offer solutions to the question, &#8220;What makes us who we are?<sub>3c<\/sub>&#8220;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0305 Come on, are we really &#8220;creatures of our own creation&#8221;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am reminded of the title of a modernist book by classicist and archaeologist, V. Gordon Childe (1892-1957), <em>Man Makes Himself<\/em>.&nbsp; The book came out in the fate-filled year of 1936.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0305 One day, there will be is nothing more &#8220;historical&#8221; than &#8220;dialectical materialism&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That day has not yet arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How so?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0306 Consider <em>the following permutation of the reoriented interscope of the layman in a world permeated by science.&nbsp; <\/em>&nbsp;The noumenon<sub>1a<\/sub>, which was placed by <em>the Positivist&#8217;s jud<\/em>gment into the realm of possibility, shifts to base actuality<sub>2z<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Figure 64<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0307 <em>The unfolded Positivist&#8217;s judgment,<\/em> with <em>its actuality<sub>2a<\/sub><\/em> reified from a triad into a dyad, occupies the layman&#8217;s situation level.&nbsp; The subscripts are a little confusing, as they should be for a reorientation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The resolved basement-level confounding<\/em> entails <em>the noumenon&#8217;s form<sub>2zf<\/sub> [entangling] mathematics and mechanisms as matter<sub>2am<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What does that confounding imply?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0308 The above interscope, inspired by Dr. Noe&#8217;s path from <em>the laboratory<\/em> to <em>the world outside the laboratory,<\/em> surely adds value to the author&#8217;s book, because it shows how this work comports with the author&#8217;s 2009 book, titled, <em>Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain And Other Lessons From The Biology of Consciousness<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Indeed, we can even add another subtitle: <em>Despite what you think about these sciences<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0309 What does the noumenon<sub>2z<\/sub> say?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does the scientist experience<sub>3a<\/sub> <em>matters of mathematics and mechanics<sub>2am<\/sub><\/em> substantiating <em>forms of disciplinary language and data<sub>2af<\/sub><\/em> emerging from <em>the potential of phenomena<sub>1a<\/sub>?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Does the regular person experience <em>scientific technical work<sub>3b<\/sub><\/em> as <em>matters of organizing principles<sub>2bm<\/sub><\/em> manufacturing <em>the forms of scientific reports<sub>2bf<\/sub><\/em> (disciplinary language and data) as emerging from <em>&#8216;the power of spoken language to assign referents&#8217;<sub>1b<\/sub>?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0297 Does the shifty reorientation infer that the regular person, following the intuition of Aristotle, ends up &#8220;entangling&#8221; scientific sensible construction with aesthetic work? 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