The dream philosophy https://youtu.be/OpzS4TFCVqc [See http://www.alansondheim.org/partial.txt for full text] http://www.alansondheim.org/partial.jpg So I was sleeping and she was sleeping and apparently I had a dream that I was in a staring contest with her and then I apparently let out in real life a big whoop and as a result of that she woke up to find me staring at her. I don't know whether the whoop was something that I did when I was dreaming or when I woke up or whether I was awake and not dreaming or whether I was dreaming and not awake and she was dreaming one of us was doing the dream which was in a sense a kind of sharing or non-sharing of a dream because there was a split between whether I was staring or whether I was not staring although it was clear when she woke up that she was staring which makes me think that I probably was awake and let out the whoop which woke me first and then woke her into the staring position. This is the way reality seems to move in that there always would seem to be divisions of one sort or another whether it's multiple heavens or multiple hells or that hill over there or is that woman or man down the street or that person behind you. This is not a fabrication but it's something embedded in language and not clearly embedded in the real world insofar as the real world is not a world of interpretation. I think the real world is not a world of interpretation. I think interpretation is a form of character carapace or habitus that's a habitus on us that we apply to ourselves and by doing this and this is done only in a group context of mutual identifications that as this happens we begin to assume so we have some understanding of how the world exists as a coagulation or a network of boundaries however soft. But I think on the other hand is that it's a situation of streams and particles and ruptures in the streams to which we have learned to give names or negotiate in order to survive. And I assume that this is probably all there is to it except insofar as we tend to believe in some form of afterlife that gives meaning beyond the meeting we have constructed for ourselves. But if it were such an afterlife clearly it would be destroyed by the presence of a neutron star or two black holes in collision or the exhaustion and yawning of dark matter in the abyss. There's no way out of this because our will to live at least momentarily also becomes a way to corral to make sense of things in order to survive. All of this is so simple it's embarrassing and what I don't understand is how all of human culture seems built, was built on this unbelievable sadness in the long run to which we are only partial And I must say partial to what? What sort of partiality is it that both divides the world and then situates you on one side or another? Is it sensible to assume that reality is based on this, on taking sides? Does taking a side mean one possesses that side? If one possesses that side can one carry that possession with him or her or them? Does the carrying of a side turn into an aside? The aside is the partial. __ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] https://lists.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
