Hugo Fjelsted Alroe (alroe@vip.cybercity.dk)
Tue, 6 Jan 1998 20:54:51 +0100
Bo, you wrote:
> By doing so we
>have the sequence: ? -SENSATION - EMOTION - REASON as the
>different levels' "subjective" side. But what are we to call the
>"mind" of matter? Suggestions please!
I really like that question - 'What do we call the 'mind' of matter?' !!
Might I suggest the term RELATION.
I see the higher level characteristic patterns as more complex forms of
relations; representative relations, mutually representative relations and
self-representative relations. I dont know if this is obvious or even
intelligible to others. To elaborate a little, sensation as representative
relation is perhaps obvious, while emotion as mutual representation might
take a little explaining. Bo also called it 'social glue', and the term
'social relations' is plainer but less suggestive, I like the term EMOTION,
though.
That reason has to do with self-representative or self-reflective
relations, is perhaps easiest to see in connection with looking at
(self-)consciousness, reasoning is a surveyed modelling process, modelling
not only the world, but our selves in the world.
Anyway, apart from my reasons for suggesting it, how do you like the term
RELATION?
Hugo
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