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0082 So far, the structural coincidence between Darwin’s paradigm and the specifying sign covers Part I of Dennett’s book and a couple of chapters in Part II.  The title of Part I is “Turning Our World Upside Down”.  The title of Part II is “From Evolution to Intelligent Design”.  The chapters covered in Part II include seven (“Darwinian Spaces: An Interlude”) and eight (“Brains Made of Brains”).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From this coincidence (or is it from Dennett’s argument?), I learn that a lot of what goes on in my neocortex<\/em> supports a user-end illusion, which I label “my mind”<\/em>.  The method behind this neuromechanical marvel employs a Darwinian paradigm, where neurons act like selective breeders and their synapses are the creatures that they breed.  This method strikes me as a little weird, since short-lived synapses are extensions of long-lived neurons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maybe it is not as weird as me walking Daisy around on a leash.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0083 I also learn that scholastic inquiry into human knowing<\/em> provides a nested picture of the actualities that participate in manifest images held by individual human minds<\/em>.  A three-level interscope contains three virtually nested actualities<\/em>.  The three-level interscope is delineated in A Primer on Sensible and Social Construction,<\/em> by Razie Mah, available at smashwords and other e-book venues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a picture, highlighting the three actualities2<\/sub> of the manifest image, and downplaying their respective normal contexts3<\/sub> and potentials1<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0084 The content-level actuality, species impressa2a<\/sub>,<\/em> goes with the terms “sensation”, “impression”, “feeling” and “qualia”.  In terms of ontology, this actuality2a<\/sub> may be portrayed as active body [substantiates] sensate soul<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The situation-level actuality, species expressa2b<\/sub>,<\/em> goes with perceptions2b<\/sub>, phantasms2b<\/sub>, emotions2b<\/sub>, trained responses2b<\/sub>, along with other expressions.  In terms of ontology, this actuality2b<\/sub> may be portrayed as perceptive soul [informs] reactive body<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The perspective-level actuality, species intelligibilis2c<\/sub>,<\/em> goes with judgments2c<\/sub>, explicitly, and convictions2c<\/sub>, implicitly.  A conviction<\/em> is a judgment where the relational elements are not labeled<\/em>.  So, the triadic structure<\/em> operates holistically<\/em>.  In terms of ontology, a<\/em> judgment<\/em> is a triadic structure consisting of three elements: relation,<\/em> what is<\/em> and what ought to be<\/em>.  When we associate each of the elements with one of Peirce’s categories, the judgment becomes actionable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0085 These three actualities are discussed in Razie Mah’s blogs for October 2023, titled Looking at John Deely’s Book (2010) Semiotic Animal<\/em>.  Of course, in order to understand these three actualities, I must divine their normal contexts and potentials.  This divination will proceed as I examine the sign-relations<\/em> that are embedded in the scholastic manifest image<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0086 Let me start with the basics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We (humans) encounter actuality2<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We understand that encounter when we have elucidated the appropriate normal context3<\/sub> and potential1<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The elucidation may proceed using Aristotle’s four causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0087 But, what if two of Aristotle’s causes are outlawed by the positivist intellect?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, the positivist intellect cannot achieve understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead, the positivist intellect (which is the relation<\/em> in the Positivist’s judgment) uses disciplinary language to construct mathematical and mechanical models of observations and measurements of psychological and social phenomena (what ought to be <\/em>in the Positivist’s judgment).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then the Positivist sells these models under the label, “scientific conclusions”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0088 Typically, when a clinical psychologist mentions the term, “manifest image”, the referent is a species expressa2b<\/sub><\/em>. Why?  People tend to seek the services of a clinical psychologist<\/em> when they cannot control their emotions.  An emotion may be portrayed by the hylomorphe, perceptive soul [informs] reactive body<\/em>.  Perceptions [trigger] emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The client suffers the actuality of a phantasm2b<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The clinician suspects that the client will understand that actuality2b<\/sub> when a virtual normal context2c<\/sub> and potential2a<\/sub> are elucidated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0089 The following figure portrays the virtual nested form in the realm of actuality<\/em> for the scholastic’s manifest image<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0090 This nested form is virtual because it runs down a column in a three level interscope.  The qualifier, “virtual”, means “in virtue”, in regards to the mind, and “in simulation”, in regards to the brain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The perspective-level normal context of judgment2c<\/sub><\/em> virtually brings the situation-level actuality of a perception2b<\/sub><\/em> into relation with the content-level potential of sensations2a<\/sub>, impressions2a<\/sub> and feelings2a<\/sub><\/em>.  Each of these actualities<\/em> conveys its own sense of realness<\/em>.  But, the phantasm2b<\/sub><\/em> seems to be the most real<\/em> because it occupies the slot for secondness in both the situation-level nested form and the virtual nested for in the interscope<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

0091 Often, the species intelligibilis2c<\/sub><\/em> and the species impressa2a<\/sub><\/em> do not register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even less apparent are the normal contexts and the potentials<\/em> for all three actualities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No wonder the catholic schoolmen spend centuries debating the causalities involved in how humans think<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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