Rafael Capurro wrote:
>
>dear michael,
>
>you say:
>>Anything which is not information today is not.
>The new moons of Jupiter dis-covered recently by Voyager _are_ nothing
>other than
>the electromagnetic impressions the satellite sent back to Earth. Being
>needs
>humankind. <
>Right, but as usual with "nothing other than" this means a Seinsentwurf. We
>are designing Being starting from virtuality in the computer, so that 'real
>things' appear 'nothing other than'. I call this: esse i s computari
>(changing Berkeley's dictum)
Perhaps we need to reverse the question here. Is there an a-phenomenological
core to things? If so, would it not also be a thing? But, are there
a-phenomenological things? Is not a thing, by definition, phenomenological
(that is, are not things and phenomena the same thing)? Is this not a case
where grammer and language simply fall flat on their face? Isn't this also
why Heidegger, in his later writings, took to crossing out the word "being"
wherever he wrote it, because to do otherwise would be to accord it the
status of a thing?
Steve Callihan
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>
>dear michael,
>
>you say:
>>Anything which is not information today is not.
>The new moons of Jupiter dis-covered recently by Voyager _are_ nothing
>other than
>the electromagnetic impressions the satellite sent back to Earth. Being
>needs
>humankind. <
>Right, but as usual with "nothing other than" this means a Seinsentwurf. We
>are designing Being starting from virtuality in the computer, so that 'real
>things' appear 'nothing other than'. I call this: esse i s computari
>(changing Berkeley's dictum)
Perhaps we need to reverse the question here. Is there an a-phenomenological
core to things? If so, would it not also be a thing? But, are there
a-phenomenological things? Is not a thing, by definition, phenomenological
(that is, are not things and phenomena the same thing)? Is this not a case
where grammer and language simply fall flat on their face? Isn't this also
why Heidegger, in his later writings, took to crossing out the word "being"
wherever he wrote it, because to do otherwise would be to accord it the
status of a thing?
Steve Callihan
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