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WORLDVIEW
World Models:
We model the world by proactively dichotomizing properties (soft/hard, light/dark, fast/slow, big/little, order/disorder, solid/void, subjective/objective, etc. etc. etc.). These are conceptual constructions from the point of view of a signifying agent, an agent with specific mapping purposes. By mapping dichotomies a signifying agent DOES NOT `objectively' assess the world, a signifying agent CREATES dichotomies in direct relation to its own needs and uses. The agent FABRICATES a configuration space for its own use and the result is a map of an agent's own projected preferences. The agent (the `we' in the first sentence) is a sentient biological organism with specific requirements for mapping a world that ARE NOT objective. Our purposes (and our map) are ENTIRELY `subjective' . What's more, the self/world dichotomy at the heart of ALL these constructions is ALSO a conceptual contrivance with a specific purpose; it is NOT an objective aspect of `reality'. ANY construction that results in the notion of either a freestanding `world' OR a freestanding `self' is a synthetic construction, an artifice; certainly a useful contrivance but definitely NOT a truth in the `absolute' sense.
This awful truth about our absolute truths is very freeing. Contrary to pessimistic, self-pitying assessments of this situation, it DOES NOT confine us within the bounds of cognitive closure. Rather, it allows us to understand what it is that sentient entities are up to and why. It allows us to understand a conscious condition wherein signifying agents are caught up in their own constructions for specific purposes. It allows us to see what exactly it is that awareness is employed at in the natural world. It allows us to understand a conscious condition as a condition of world-modeling. And most importantly, it allows us to exceed the world-modeling explanatory parameters that are pre-given within the needs and uses of biological entities.
World-models need not only be informed by the imperatives of biological survival. We are not confined to the concept of a 'self' set in a 'non-self' world, acting on the 'non-self' world in a configuration space defined by three-dimensions, causal-mechanical dynamics, linear time, or the kinds of narrative constructions designed to enable nutrition, procreation and self-protection. Suddenly conscious experience is our oyster in a brand new way. We are indeed obliged to continue entertaining the biological imperative, NOT because it represents an absolute truth about the world, but merely because our biological format is inescapable and needs attending to. What we do beyond that is entirely up to us.
We enter a realm of infinite potential limited only by the constraints of our overworn psychological preference for absolute truths. If the human community can adjust to the inescapable absolute truth of contingency in ALL concepts, we can then reconceptualize our global community in more just, stable and sustainable ways. We are not bound by the supposed absolute truths of our biofunctional causal-mechanical configuration space or the causal-mechanical beliefs, behaviors and assumptions that go with it --- the awful combination of materialism, boundaries and brute forces that informed the stunningly horrific behaviors of the 20th century.
We really can do better. But it depends on the players in consciousness studies to see and convey the process of world-modeling in a brand new way. Consciousness studies can provide a brand new truth about our condition and a brand new direction for the human endeavor.
Best,
CH
We model the world by proactively dichotomizing properties (soft/hard, light/dark, fast/slow, big/little, order/disorder, solid/void, subjective/objective, etc. etc. etc.). These are conceptual constructions from the point of view of a signifying agent, an agent with specific mapping purposes. By mapping dichotomies a signifying agent DOES NOT `objectively' assess the world, a signifying agent CREATES dichotomies in direct relation to its own needs and uses. The agent FABRICATES a configuration space for its own use and the result is a map of an agent's own projected preferences. The agent (the `we' in the first sentence) is a sentient biological organism with specific requirements for mapping a world that ARE NOT objective. Our purposes (and our map) are ENTIRELY `subjective' . What's more, the self/world dichotomy at the heart of ALL these constructions is ALSO a conceptual contrivance with a specific purpose; it is NOT an objective aspect of `reality'. ANY construction that results in the notion of either a freestanding `world' OR a freestanding `self' is a synthetic construction, an artifice; certainly a useful contrivance but definitely NOT a truth in the `absolute' sense.
This awful truth about our absolute truths is very freeing. Contrary to pessimistic, self-pitying assessments of this situation, it DOES NOT confine us within the bounds of cognitive closure. Rather, it allows us to understand what it is that sentient entities are up to and why. It allows us to understand a conscious condition wherein signifying agents are caught up in their own constructions for specific purposes. It allows us to see what exactly it is that awareness is employed at in the natural world. It allows us to understand a conscious condition as a condition of world-modeling. And most importantly, it allows us to exceed the world-modeling explanatory parameters that are pre-given within the needs and uses of biological entities.
World-models need not only be informed by the imperatives of biological survival. We are not confined to the concept of a 'self' set in a 'non-self' world, acting on the 'non-self' world in a configuration space defined by three-dimensions, causal-mechanical dynamics, linear time, or the kinds of narrative constructions designed to enable nutrition, procreation and self-protection. Suddenly conscious experience is our oyster in a brand new way. We are indeed obliged to continue entertaining the biological imperative, NOT because it represents an absolute truth about the world, but merely because our biological format is inescapable and needs attending to. What we do beyond that is entirely up to us.
We enter a realm of infinite potential limited only by the constraints of our overworn psychological preference for absolute truths. If the human community can adjust to the inescapable absolute truth of contingency in ALL concepts, we can then reconceptualize our global community in more just, stable and sustainable ways. We are not bound by the supposed absolute truths of our biofunctional causal-mechanical configuration space or the causal-mechanical beliefs, behaviors and assumptions that go with it --- the awful combination of materialism, boundaries and brute forces that informed the stunningly horrific behaviors of the 20th century.
We really can do better. But it depends on the players in consciousness studies to see and convey the process of world-modeling in a brand new way. Consciousness studies can provide a brand new truth about our condition and a brand new direction for the human endeavor.
Best,
CH