Strange as it may seem, this is the first time in months I’ve been afforded the space to reflect without the forcefulness of tragedy. Sleep has assisted me through the process of thought collection. Unfortunately, a bit of brain fog remains.
Nevertheless, today is significant on several accounts:
1) my siblings are absent
2) there’s a lot of new life popping out( hi @ ateh kat)
3) low-key disconnected from work
‘Low-key’ because I spoke to my work wife earlier today and we arrived to the topic of goals, more popularly referred to as New Years Resolutions due to the temporal pizzaz of the holiday season.
*man, i haven’t written in so long that i can’t even tell if this is my voice*
I don’t care much for the hype, but given the turn of the decade, I figured making a few resolutions couldn’t hurt. After discussing them for a bit with Liz, I concluded that the general theme for 2020 is conscientiousness.
le trace:
Conscious Latin conscientia, knowledge within oneself
I think of the conscious as stemming from intention, with emphasis on the internal. Descartes refers to cartesian representation and recognizes intentionality as the logical following to reflection. The difficulty, here, is the difference between reality and objective reality, and their relationship to representation.
Spinoza( aka bae @ Ethics) moves to the concept of the moral conscious, a guided, structured conscious:
“Both insofar as the Mind has clear and distinct ideas, and insofar as it has confused ideas, it strives, for an indefinite duration, to persevere in its being and it is conscious of this striving it has.”
The conscious Spinoza progresses aligns more to Nietzsche’s will( to power, will to life, etc). I find this fascinating because in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the overman, or Übermensch, makes no mention of morality and considering Nietzsche typically attacks morality, it is difficult to ignore the necessity of metaphysical and empirical( as the aforementioned cartesian planes) for agency or, dare I say, autonomy. We will return to this a bit later if I remember.
Human, as machine: the conscience is considered to be morally neutral
Conscientiousness is necessarily moral, as it requires belief.
Problem is, I don’t exactly subscribe to the conscience being driven by intuition/ private morality. Also, what is private morality if not morality in general? Why is there a separation? @ marnie pls enlighten
I kinda think it’s because consciousness requires reference, but idk if a blog post warrants a movement to the discourse of heuristics.
plug Gigerenzer quotes
- “An intuition is neither caprice nor a sixth sense but a form of unconscious intelligence.”
- “plans.” To be sure, illusions have their function. Small children often need security blankets to soothe their fears. Yet for the mature adult, a high need for certainty can be a dangerous thing. It prevents us from learning to face the uncertainty pervading our lives. As hard as we try, we cannot make our lives risk-free the way we make our milk fat-free.”
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