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A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The
chicken is leaning against the headboard
smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile
on its face. The egg, looking a cheesed off,
grabs the sheet, rolls over and says ...
Well, I guess we finally answered "THAT
question!" For me there is no separation of the mind
and the body and they are both existential
modalities [ways of existing] of the same
body. There has been much philosophical discussion
concerning which came first developmentally
- the egg of the intentionality, or the chicken
of capability - the egg of existence or the
chicken of essence? The truth of the matter is that that which
exists, and the "essence" or the
way that an entity exists, is precisely the
same thing - only the accommodating human
linguistic signifier changes (from "egg"
to "chicken") in order to keep
nominative pace with the concurrently instantaneous
partnership of substances and their combinatory
existential states which impinge upon the
totality of the physical nexus and the anticipatory
and supervenery Gesamtsumme which is its
temporal landlord.
An entity exists in exact correspondence
to the current states and modalities of its
essential corporeal molecular-based, constituent
variables, together with their currently
transmogrifying intrinsic and extrinsic reciprocations The real or sentential (ideative) extantal
subject is that which equates or corresponds
with the entitative (considered as pure entity
– abstracted from all existential circumstances)
object named by the signifier - the name
or noun by which it is identified. The real or sentential entity that corresponds
to the definite article and signifier: "
the man" is the componential assemblage
or conglomerate of human existential constituents
as modified and commuted by their ever-changing
states and modalities. That which the physical tradition extrinsically
calls the "essence" of man"
is intrinsically that which exists as the
seething similitude of requisite physical
and mental event-based somatic equivalences
that occur to the quantum-based, component
mini-entities of which the macro entity in
its completeness consists. The ongoing internal and external interactions,
and the totality of their dynamic somatic
and mental events, and the processes that
inhere to their physical entireness is the
existential essence, which corresponds to
the nominative signifier of the named existent
subject entity - the man or the woman concerned. A human subject's responses and reactions
to the inherent dynamic of their own internal
aggregate conflicts and processes, and the
impingements and effects of the outer environment,
constitute the de facto, perpetually accommodating,
corporeal and mental architecture of the
entity. This existential - essential concordance
is so absolute and autocratically consummate,
that the sum internal and external activity
of an entity indistinguishably incorporates
and constitutes the entity itself. The linguistically expedient 'naming' of the 'perceived' material 'stasis' of a human entity as 'Dan' or 'Bill' also equals [in the mind of those that name] the sum of its existential - essential activities. The processant 'IS' (the BE-word) allows us to sententially discriminate and descriptionally sequestrate certain perceived states and modalities from the totality that is the subject, in order to make challengeable propositions concerning them. Thus I can choose a single behavioural dish from the assemblage available on the Carte du jour of your multitudinous modalities and say of you: "Why do you say that - how can I be sure it's true?" |