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We are embarking on a strange journey like an anthropologist heading for a newly discovered tribe in the wild. He comes into their land and tries to begin understanding their language and way of life. At first he has a hard time just learning thier words and sounds. He learns the most used words.
Over the months he learns to understand everything these people are trying to say. In that time he learns of many particulars of their lifstyle. Formin an overall picture of how these people are. One that works when trying to figure out why they do what they do, the anthropologist gathers more and more data. Then he reaches a point where all of the gethered, reduced particulars allow the emergence of a method for understanding the complexity of this society. The self, the brain, and the soul are just like this strange new place. All we know about are the nerve cells and are trying to combine them together so that experience emerges from the analysis. |
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ANTHROPOLOGY OF THE SELF
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This is how it is with the brain and that is what we have to go through in order to understand how the brain produces the self. We are wanderring inside of the brain and we have to look at all of this from the sociological perspective, not an emperical reductionism; but a synthesis from particulars, a synthisis that many doubt can be attained. We need to put it all back together after first reducing all behavior to it's elements.
This is like trying to interpret the meaning of an entire book with only the rules of grammar. (the anti-reductionist unfairly makes all these attemps look like this.) We are looking at the wrong level. Many people dismiss reductionism before a "synthesis" is even attemtted, all the while looking at the wrong level; rules of grammer instead of a proper deconstruction of meanings. Cannot analyse an entire book on it's verbs, subjects, and predicates! Wrong level of interpretation, when seeking the source of the self and the soul. Instead of phrases and sentences we have to analyse the PLOT of human behavior and interaction. Think of the different levels of components traversed between letters and words on to the finale of a complex story, a story that could potentially explain the entire world for a portion of time. This then is the goal; to learn how to read the story of the self. Like a yound person learning to read stories, we must first learn the basics of spelling and grammer, and then learn how to read short stories and the stories with numerous chapters. To read human behavior But to read it not not from outward appearances but to learn it from the different levels of abstraction amongst nerve cells, groups of nerve cells, coalitions of groups of nerve cells..etc...to metacoalitionsofgroupsofnervesman. These groups together act as components for the formation of higher level groups (which are the invisible part you can't see when looking at individual cells) and on up the line until the self can be spoken of in a language. Once we can speak of these invisible parts, not unlike talking about team members activities that cannot be attributes to the individuals) we will be well on the way to a nuetral synthisis instead of a contempt for what can't be seen but is known to be there! [THE SELF] ..... |
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