> [gav] > sartre's 'nausea' deals with this when the > author/protagonist, when looking > at a tree, sees not a tree but an alien, unique, dynamic > flux of > perceptions. the category 'tree', he realises, is abstract; > the 'real' tree > is unique, infinite. > > [Krimel] > That is groovy but not very helpful if one needs a fire for > warmth or a tree > for Christmas decoration. All those dynamic alien > properties are spiffy and > all, but the whole point of conceptualization is to dismiss > the irrelevant > from the relevant in the given moment. The immediate > present contains system > within systems and if we are to survive from one moment to > the next we need > to focus on our relationships within those systems. > Concepts are filters > that we cultivate over time to help us separate what's > important from what's > not. In this case we are usually scanning for dynamic > foreground against a > static background.
gav: the immediate present contains no systems; it contains no-thing. it is, by definition, immediate - given. this is axiomatic in the MOQ. ...and the truth is always helpful, even if it sometimes hurts. [Krimel] Huh? Is this a response to a post I wrote? Oh well... But by the way, we do not and can not live in the immediate present. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
