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0205 What does Zizek do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He investigates the contiguity between a noumenon [and] its phenomena,<\/em> as if it might be a feature and not a bug.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He gives examples of Bell’s theorem.  He talks about anxiety, when it comes to relying only on phenomena<\/em>.  What about the noumenon, the thing itself?<\/em>  Oh, I can take the model, framed within the disciplinary languages of quantum mechanics, and account for the data, the observable and measurable features of the phenomena<\/em> of really tiny things<\/em>.  But, I have to take a lot of measurements, because these things are really small.  Plus, I cannot predict the behavior of any single small particle, because they are all identical as far as the measurement apparatus is concerned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a fashion, scientists transcend the ontological thing itself<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientist prefer to replace the noumenon<\/em> with what the noumenon must be, according to their models<\/em>.   Then, the model (standing in the place of the noumenon) [can be objectified as] its phenomena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0206 Zizek considers space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zizek ponders time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, these excursions only bring the author to admit that space and time may well be located on the content-level, along with what it is3a<\/sub><\/em> and the potential of ‘the thing itself’1a<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You know, that is location with the “Please disregard…” sign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zizek writes something like this.  Science?  How crazy is science?  Science pushes symbolizing the real with formulas that don’t make sense<\/em> to the point where we substitute our own encounters with the thing itself <\/em>with what we imagine that our symbol-laden formulas are telling us what the noumenon must be<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0207 I suspect that is why<\/em> Zizek is paid the big bucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He says it so much better than me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lacan was also paid well.  This fact<\/em> pissed off competing psychoanalysts<\/em>.  Lacan did not regard their urinations when he coined the French term, “achoses<\/em>“.  Achoses<\/em> gets transliterated into no-things<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For, example, a superposition of states\/waves2a<\/sub> is an achose<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Decades later, Zizek nicely ties the ribbon by noting that the “a<\/em>” of achose<\/em> is the a<\/em> of objet a, <\/em>which I have already encountered as the actuality2x<\/sub> that emerges from (and situates) jouissance1x<\/sub>, as the potential of ‘truth and synthesis’1x<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or, is it the possibility of ‘a synthetic truth’1x<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0208 How about the following?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What if data1c<\/sub> are syntheses1c<\/sub> of the truth1c<\/sub> of measurements2b<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I can use a Lacanian… um… a Peircean re-articulation of a Lacanian schema… to boldly rip the banner of “Please disregard…” from the imaginary noumenon level and reveal the fully exposed achose2a<\/sub><\/em>, as what the model says that the thing itself must be.<\/em>  Oh… what?… a particle composed of superimposed waves2a<\/sub>?<\/em>… that is not it2a<\/sub>, is it2c<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

0209 Here is a picture of the three-level interscope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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0210 Well, it2a<\/sub> may not be the noumenon1a<\/sub>,<\/em> but it2a<\/sub> is objectified by um… its phenomena1b<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the content or imaginary or noumenon level, the normal context of what it is3a<\/sub><\/em> brings the thing that the model says it is2a<\/sub><\/em> (that is, an achose2a<\/sub>)<\/em> into relation with the possibility of ‘the thing itself’1a<\/sub><\/em>.   Or, should I say, “the possibility that it2a<\/sub> can be the thing itself1a<\/sub>,<\/em> which it2a<\/sub> obviously is not, because it2a<\/sub> is what scientists say it2a<\/sub> must be”?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the situation or real or phenomenon level, the normal context of a measurement apparatus3a<\/sub><\/em> brings the actuality of the dyad2b<\/sub>,<\/em> {the collapse of states\/waves [yields] a measurement}2b<\/sub>, into relation with the possibility of ‘phenomena from what is of the Positivist’s judgment’1b<\/sub><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the perspective or symbolic or model level, the empirio-schematic judgment<\/em> more or less unfolds.  The disciplinary language of quantum mechanics3c<\/sub><\/em> brings the actuality of the dyad2c<\/sub>, <\/em>{acquired data [fits into] mechanical or mathematical model}2c<\/sub>, into relation with the possibility of ‘data’1c<\/sub>,<\/em> which is obviously a mask for jouissance1c<\/sub><\/em>designated as the potential of ‘a synthetic truth’1c<\/sub>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

0211 After all, doesn’t “data2c<\/sub>” manifest synthetic truth1c<\/sub>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, doesn’t “data2c<\/sub>” (as matter) fit into a mathematical or mechanical model2c<\/sub> (as form)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, just like Jesus sees Satan fall from the heavens, like a lightning bolt, does not the symbolic cast its own image down to the imaginary?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lacan follows a sacred vision<\/em> to its obscene essence<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Metaphysics is not allowed.The achose<\/em> is the discharge of radical materialism2c<\/sub><\/em> into the hollow2a<\/sub> between what it is3a<\/sub> and the potential that it is1a<\/sub>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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