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Aardvark advisory, by William I. Brown. An unblended reduplication of the second order theme. Published Friday, 1st September 2006.
Excerpt: "The 'other' expression, the one that inserts the difference between the presence and absence of finiteness as the decisive expression of inwardness, echoes the movement of infinite resignation. This makes it clear that inwardness is not a direction but a state; there being no direction of inwardness other than through the movement that negates the prior meaning of inwardness. In other words, the inwardness that is represented by the finite spirit, or characterized as inwardness by the finite spirit, is not the inwardness being spoken to. There is inwardness and there is inwardness and between the two is an absolute disjunction SK has, on occasion, signified as the qualitative dialectic. This difference also shows up in Works of Love as the difference signified by what he calls the transferred language."
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The Field and Gate, by William I. Brown. An insight within self-annihilation. Published Wednesday, 11th January 2006.
Excerpt: "Entry begins with a feeling of floating, of being ungrounded, and ends with a reflection upon it. If there is a grab for a self-ground during entry, the floating turns into anxiety. The first few times the experience begins, it would take an act of faith not to grab for a self-ground. But even so, there is something about it that draws one back to it, a sweet dread, as it were. When one comes to the no-self ground, by releasing both the self and the fear, the ground is security."
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Variations in search of
a theme, by William I. Brown followed by Mr. Pascal's
reading notes to the text. An essay in ten points published 24th September 2005 & concerned with self-definition, truth and subjectivity. Mr. Brown reveals his innermost conception of subjectivity which he derives or so he claims from an active reading of the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. Here follows an abstract:
Excerpt: 'Inwardness is a metaphor for the whole grasp
of oneself as oneself. Lack of inwardness is a metaphor for the partial grasp
of oneself as oneself. The transition, as the transformation within oneself, is
the movement from the partial grasp to the whole grasp. The aesthetic sphere
represents the partial grasp, while the religious sphere represents the whole
grasp. The ethical sphere, as the passageway (See Stages, Hong, p.477) between
the two, represents the release of the partial grasp, wherein the whole grasp
is an abstract grasp not yet made concrete by the return to existence, and
signifying ethical despair '
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The Way of Inquiry, by William I. Brown. An admirable guidebook as to how to become what
one is: oneself. Of course what one becomes by reading it, one wasn't before,
so that one isn't one but two. Understand who may... If intrigued, then just
read, Mr. Brown is not the first american philosopher out of no reason! His
Artificial Intelligence piece had inaugurated our publication of his works, now
it's a more decisive, perhaps somewhat more demanding too that's coming up.
Shall you be up to the task ? Are you strong enough ? Perhaps not. Perhaps it's
better for you not to read it. If you don't know, why, it's probably you
shouldn't! Or you would know... An extatic evokation published, Wednesday, 17th July 2005
Excerpt: On the day I landed in Lisbon, I found myself on the ramparts of the castle that overlooks both the city and the sea. I saw the sun settling into the sea as the period that would bring my old
life sentence to an end. So strong and so ideal was my dream of a new beginning
that when I saw pigeons gathering at my feet, my first thought was one of
disbelief; they were part of the old, not the new.'
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The Question of
Artificial Intelligence, by William I. Brown. A
remarkable example of the edifying character of the works: A Doodle in Life,
very probably to be published by us in a nearby future. This piece (AI) belongs
to the middle age (late 70s upto late 80s) of the noble task of Mr Doodle as
opposed to the early pieces (60s early 70s) or the mature ones (late 90s). The
reader should not be deceived by the title: the Artificial Intelligence is the
pretext of a thoroughly philosophic approach of the notion of intelligence in
general. The central question(s) is (are): what is it (not) to think ? No
specific knowledge in robotics or computer programming is required
to understand the paper. An essay published, Tuesday, 9th
July 2005.
Excerpt: 'What does it mean, to think? The question has two answers, as does all questions of meaning. The first, or objective answer, is provided by thought, where we say what we think it means.
The second, or subjective answer, is provided by contact, wherein we directly
experience the answer. The question now has subjective implications, and we
have no way of completing the answer to the question without first completing
the answer to the question of what it means, not to think.'
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