Bodily processes and states can be inspected by external observations.

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“Ghosts in Machine” entry in Wikipedia.

More: “Thus a person’s bodily life is as much a public affair as are the lives of animals. But minds do not exist in space, nor are their operation subject to mechanical laws. The workings of the mind are not witnessable by other observers; its career is private. A person therefore lives through two collateral histories: one consisting of what happens to and with the body (public); the other consisting of what happens to and in the mind (private). However, the problem with this theory is that in order for this to happen there would have to be a division in reality where the mind is not governed by mechanical laws. This creates a dichotomy as reality can not be divided and nothing can exist outside of reality.”

The subject-object problem, a longstanding philosophical issue, is concerned with the analysis of human experience, and of what within experience is “subjective” and what is “objective”.

April 27th, 2011 § Comments Off on The subject-object problem, a longstanding philosophical issue, is concerned with the analysis of human experience, and of what within experience is “subjective” and what is “objective”. § permalink

Wikipedia

“The Subject-Object Problem”

Like everything else in the world, we have a nature: we’re bodily, we can’t control what happens around us, and we are constantly the objects of other people’s judgments. Sartre called this part of ourselves “being-in-itself.” But at the same time we’re subjects, or what he, following Hegel, called “being-for-itself”: we make choices about what we do with our bodies and appetites, experience ourselves as the center of our worlds and judge the passing show and other people’s roles in it. For Sartre, the rub is that it’s impossible for us to put these two halves of ourselves together. At any given moment, a person is either an object or a subject.

June 20th, 2010 § Comments Off on Like everything else in the world, we have a nature: we’re bodily, we can’t control what happens around us, and we are constantly the objects of other people’s judgments. Sartre called this part of ourselves “being-in-itself.” But at the same time we’re subjects, or what he, following Hegel, called “being-for-itself”: we make choices about what we do with our bodies and appetites, experience ourselves as the center of our worlds and judge the passing show and other people’s roles in it. For Sartre, the rub is that it’s impossible for us to put these two halves of ourselves together. At any given moment, a person is either an object or a subject. § permalink

“Lady Power”

Nancy Bauer in The New York Times, June 20, 2010

She is referencing Sartre’s book, Being and Nothingness, which discusses being-for-itself.

“Me embodying the position that I’m analyzing is the very thing that makes it so powerful.” Of course, the more successful the embodiment, the less obvious the analytic part is. And since Gaga herself literally embodies the norms that she claims to be putting pressure on (she’s pretty, she’s thin, she’s well-proportioned), the message, even when it comes through, is not exactly stable. It’s easy to construe Gaga as suggesting that frank self-objectification is a form of real power.

June 20th, 2010 § Comments Off on “Me embodying the position that I’m analyzing is the very thing that makes it so powerful.” Of course, the more successful the embodiment, the less obvious the analytic part is. And since Gaga herself literally embodies the norms that she claims to be putting pressure on (she’s pretty, she’s thin, she’s well-proportioned), the message, even when it comes through, is not exactly stable. It’s easy to construe Gaga as suggesting that frank self-objectification is a form of real power. § permalink

“Lady Power”

Nancy Bauer in The New York Times, June 20, 2010

In the contemporary world, the individual recognizes the objective existence of bodies alone, and, first of all, of his or her own body.

September 9th, 2006 § Comments Off on In the contemporary world, the individual recognizes the objective existence of bodies alone, and, first of all, of his or her own body. § permalink

“Bodies, Languages Truths”

Alain Badiou’s lecture delivered at the Victoria College of Arts, University of Melbourne, Sept 9th, 2006.

…”In the pragmatics of desires, in the evidence of the domination of trade and business, in the formal law of sale and purchase, the individual is convinced of, and formatted by, the dogma of our finitude, of our exposition to enjoyment, suffering and death.”

Or, they become mesmerized by the mirror-like other and attempt, as they previously had done in controlling their own body, to assert their will.

January 1st, 1807 § Comments Off on Or, they become mesmerized by the mirror-like other and attempt, as they previously had done in controlling their own body, to assert their will. § permalink

Wikipedia, in an article discussing Hegel’s Master-Slave dialectic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master-slave_dialectic

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