/lit/ - Literature

>>16031442
It's not about measly definitions you just don't fundamentally understand the concept which is why I suggest you read up on it.
For example there is nothing about escaping. Human bodies have human perspectives I never claimed otherwise. It's about denying that other beings' modes of experience. Unless you are a cartesian dualist or some sort of solipsist you should have no issue with what I am saying. As for what is it other beings in general feel that can't be pinpointed exactly but it is speculatable and we can identify some sort of experience and modes of which it takes place. I have a dog. I love my dog. I come home and it is excited to see me. I have built an affectionate bond with it. Let's say it has a splinter in its foot. It will probably howl or something and feel a tinge of pain. Does it feel excitement or pain in the way I do? I don't know but it is something that can be speculated. And it definitely does have modes of experinces we have identified that already. Let's not be stuck in the 16th century cartesian dualism is in the dustbin. These words that I attribute are made up to grasp at concepts/"feelings" that are experienced.
Whitehead's philosophy is a philosophy of speculation and adventure and to me it is refreshing as the whole approach of the linguistic turn is a dead end (and I am glad people have been turning away from it)
From page 1 of P and R:
>“Philosophers can never hope finally to formulate these metaphysical first principles. Weakness of insight and deficiencies of language stand in the way inexorably. Words and phrases must be stretched towards a generality foreign to their ordinary usage; and however such elements of language be stabilized as technicalities, they remain metaphors mutely appealing for an imaginative leap.”

>>14120291
He's not a panpsychist.

>>14118489
Cartesianism was a mistake

>>14046357
You don't understand bro: the fields of art and science converge on the study of human creativity. The basic process of human creativity is expressed in both. So there's PARALLEL layers of mutually involved significance: the metaphorical and literal, analogical and analytical, irrational and rational. This parallel simultinaety isn't just a theory, but can be developed as a personal creative process: the self as and art and science. This is the science of autology, and it is my specialty.

It was also Whitehead's specialty, which is quickly made clear by a study of his work and its panexperientialist of the "language of feeling." Also this "language of feeling" ought to be considered as both metaphorical (abstract aboutness of feeling, i.e. Whitehead's theory of prehension) but also literally the embodied language of feeling: of sense-experience. What Whitehead describes is a universal language to bridge these two fundamental languages of experience, which was also an attempt to reverse engineer and opensource his own poetic and mathematical creativity. They should have sent a poet, and they did: a math poet.

Now consider "the fields of art and science converge on the study of human creativity" as both an individual (literal) phenomenon and a social (abstract metaphorical) convergence on the study of human creativity via its transformation into a physical science of psychology. Hyper-positive psychology, which was greatly inspired to me by the work of Martin Seligman, whom I read enthusiastically and found the book "Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny" inside of. This line of inquiry grow alongside others, such as the Virus 23 / Autonym relationship I found via my study of memetics inspired by Richard Dawkins' book The Selfish Gene. This line of inquiry grew just as radically, until it dared to imagine a memetic singularity and it's necessary implications. Follow the implications, follow what must be implied to reach the actual production.

Here's the aburd thing: The Principia Discordia is a level beyond even Whitehead. So you can get a preview of just how deliciously absurd, weird, and transrational the future is today by reading this old book:

https://principiadiscordia.com/book/1.php

Reading the P.D. alongside Whitehead is among the most biggest-brain things an inspiring intellectual can do at the present moment.

TL;DR Whitehead was the initiation of the scientific project and Discordianism the initiation of the artistic project that would become a self-organizing scheme of memetically self-evolutionary dreams that could coalesce into The Completion of the System of Radical Empiricism.
I completed such a system of October 1st >>14044271

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>>13900048
This is a good description of why he uses the language of feeling the way he does.