Robert Rosen expresses profound ideas in his Essays on Life Itself. This is an attempt to summarize his ideas in order to understand.
Objectivizing of mind is the reverse aspect of the subjectivizing of nature, to the point where the mind can grasp it. An impredicate loop arises in putting these two things together.1 Objective means a causal independence independence from any larger context.2 The presumed independence of observed from observer fails.3 There is no line between subject and object.4 To suppose such is tantamount to postulating a simple world.5 Whatever the world may be, it is not simple.6
My interpretation:
- To be objective means to be causally independent of the subjective. In order to understand nature (without simplifying it) we need subjectivizing it to the point it becomes objective.1,2
- The separation between subject and object is only possible in a simple world.3,4,5 Whatever the world is, it is not simple.6
Additional thoughts:
- Extrinsic/explicit/unfolded/explicate order is objective.
- Intrinsic/implicit/enfolded/implicate order is subjective.
Notes:
1. Robert Rosen, Essays on Life Itself, p. 61.
2. Ibid..
3. Ibid..
4. Ibid..
5. Ibid..
6. Ibid..
Update 2022-10-23: Image deleted.
Update 2022-10-18: Intro changed. Related posts added.
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