concept: subjectivity
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Definition
The aggregate of first-personally accessible processes, including perception, cognition, affect, and self-modeling. The inescapable first-person vantage point.
An umbrella term for the cluster of names for the first person perspective, preferred over consciousness. Self, Soul, spirit, atman, anatman, dasein, existentialism, phenomenalism, apperception, consciousness, Dasein, mind, experience, cognition, intentionality. The thing that Hume and Buddha cannot find. How do we describe, explain, name the self? See the Husserlian tradition, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty.
This notion of "subjectivity" is certainly close to Heideggers "Dasein": a perspective situated in patterned time and space, that interprets sensory receptions as aspects of conjectural external objects and persons within three distinct domains:
!Victor Badinage Quotes by Theme#^f944f3
Subjectivity as condition, not object
- Subjectivity cannot appear as an **object** within the recept-aspect-object schema.
- It is the **condition under which objects appear as such**.
- It is not an ostensive object, it is a metalinguistic name for a presuppositional object.
(Following Rorty's exploration in PMN.) The _mental_ is a change in discernment--a leap from one object to another. Subject becomes object; I move to a new location; the implicit becomes explicit.
Only someone who has already oubliated the subject would find plausible an argument that eliminates the subject. see Rorty PMN pg 62
Adding subject and object transforms the recept into an aspect of the actual. Kant saw this as the transcendental unity of apperception. That is the "I" attaches itself to all my representations. see Pippin's discussion Rodl
When we separate the subject from its recept and its object it disappears. Alex O'Connor and Avicenna think we can be conscious of the void. The hard problem is this. But it is not so much a hard problem as it is a frustration at the limits of description and analysis.
We should distinguish between subjectivity and Socrates' soul, Descartes cogito, Husserl's phenomena.
Scientific method, empiricism is _subjectively indexed corroboration_.
When we speak of subjectivity as a double self--comprising both sentience _and_ sapience--our aim is not to problematize the self, nor to explain the self, nor to make a duality of the self. Our aim is to _suspend_ our discourse _within_ the self. Discourse will not provide us with a model of the subjectivity; rather, _subjectivity_ is the vantage point from which discourse proceeds
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