The Matter of Vision. Peter Wyeth
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Philosophy & science
Kant declares Philosophy has an equal truth to science
Philosophy turns its back on nature
If every idea is testable in principal
Philosophy returns to nature
The superiority of science to (an autonomous) Philosophy
Testing is no panacea
No Testing is ‘a tumbling ground for whimsies’
x (b)
Instinct & knowledge
Unwritten knowledge exceeds written knowledge
Informal knowledge exceeds formal knowledge
Tacit knowledge is concrete
Infinitely more wisdom
in tacit knowledge
than in the Academy
II Extensions
i.
The history of all hitherto existing societies has been the prisoner of three stern gaolers Language, Consciousness and Reason
These pillars of being human
evolved ideologies
reducing their opposites
Language demotes Vision
Consciousness masks the Automatic
Reason condescends to Emotion
Verbal and ‘Non-Verbal’
Conscious and ‘Un-conscious’
Reason and ‘Un-reason’
We are aware of the ‘non-verbal’
even as we deny it a name
We are aware of the un-conscious
even as we deny it a word of its own
We are most aware of Emotion
but demote it opposite Reason
Man can have Emotion without Reason
But not Reason without Emotion.
Reason is in fact contingent upon Emotion
The opposite of the ideology of Reason
Emotion is the primary fact
of our existence
It surrounds Reason and Consciousness
and suffuses Language
Emotion is the heart of the brain
ii
Language, Consciousness and Reason
The trinity think themselves the foundations of civilisation
but hold back man’s development.
It is not LCR themselves that is the problem
But how man sees them.
Each has developed its own Ideology
to protect it from the threat
perceived in its opposite.
Each has become a
thing in itself
an artefact
(of ideology)
with a boundary to protect
Each one reacts like an animal
feeling a threat
to its territory.
iii
Language
Language is a chimaera.
Language is blind.
Vision is so much older than Language
The upstart attempts to usurp the veteran
waging ceaseless war against its superior
claiming hegemony against the odds.
To grasp the full depth of Vision
can encourage Language to place itself in its service
Verbal and ‘Non-Verbal’ intelligence.
Visual intelligence is not on the agenda
not recognised as a thing in itself
Only a negative form.
With Consciousness
There is the Conscious
Opposed to the Un-conscious
Merely the negative form
As though the Conscious
Was the dominant mode
And the rest of minor significance.
iv
Consciousness & The Automatic
Consciousness is perhaps one millionth of the senses*. The Automatic is the million – minus the one of consciousness.
(*Trincker 1965 “only one millionth of what our eyes see, our ears hear, and our other senses inform us about appears in our consciousness”73).
Until we grasp the scope of the Automatic
we will remain imprisoned within Consciousness.
Consciousness
processes around 10 bits per second of information
The area beyond Consciousness
Here called the Automatic
Has perhaps
three-hundred million billion connections in the brain
Consciousness
the tip of the tip of the iceberg
v
Reason
Reason is a noble ambition.
Mankind is unreasonable.
Man is inevitably imprisoned in his own subjectivity
Not reason but rationalisation.
Reason can be opposed to unreason
Or to Emotion.
Emotion can exist without Reason
Reason cannot exist without Emotion
Yet the Ideology of Reason
Deems it superior to Emotion.
vi
LCR ideologies
In each case
ideology
sets out to conceal
reality
Each of the trinity
has a lesser role
in the mind of man
than they would have you believe.
Language believes itself the medium of thought
Consciousness believes it runs the brain
Reason believes it is objective.
None are true.
Language is not the medium of thought, but Vision
Consciousness is a millionth of brain activity, the rest is Automatic
Reason is (and should always be) at the behest of Emotion
(David Hume74)
Language