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0014 The human, Kanzelberger writes, \u201caspires to know more and more of the being of nature<\/em> in its natural constitution.\u201d  Humans are always busy trying to figure out what is happening3a<\/sub><\/em>.  What does it mean to me3b<\/sub>?<\/em>  Our objective potential1b<\/sub><\/em>tries to make sense of each subjective potential1a<\/sub>,<\/em> resulting in our fallible phantasms2b<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The human sees the cat strike the bird2a<\/sub>, witnessing perfection in the cat and privation in the bird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cat subjectively1a<\/sub> wants to objectively1b<\/sub> wound the bird.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The human throws a guess2b<\/sub> as surely as the cat throws its paw.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0015 A phantasm2b<\/sub> does not gain the full potential of its objectivity1b<\/sub><\/em> until it becomes intersubjective1b<\/sub>.  In order to become intersubjective, it must be constellated2b<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0016 An objective phantasm2b<\/sub><\/em> can become intersubjective1b<\/sub>,<\/em> in two, non-exclusive ways, through judgment2c<\/sub> and through discourse2a<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first option, the intersubjective1b<\/sub> stands at the gates of the suprasubjective1c<\/sub><\/em>.  Passage leads to a judgment2c<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the second option, the object2b<\/sub> stands at the gates of human blather1a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0017 Blather?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An event2a<\/sub> gives rise to a phantasm2b<\/sub>, in the mind of a beholder, who, without delay, decides to release that phantasm2b<\/sub>for someone else to hear2a<\/sub>.  The decision3c<\/sub> casts the phantasm2b<\/sub> down, like a bolt of lightning, into an event2a<\/sub>, born of human subjectivity1a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0018 The observer says, \u201cDid you see that? That cat broke the bird\u2019s wing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To which the graduate student replies, \u201cSay what?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat cat is evil!\u201d, the observer declares.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Oh no, God made all cats in His goodness. But, still, the cat\u2019s action may be a symbol of an evil, murderous and immoral spirit.\u00a0\u00a0The symbol doesn\u2019t apply to the cat.\u00a0\u00a0The cat becomes a symbol to us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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