[MD] The Edge 2006 Annual Question

[David M]

Scott

Are the feelings mankind has had in relation to idols
appropriate in relation to something else? I think so,
I wonder if we agree as to where they might be appropriate?

David M

Where am I wrong, other than not being a semioticist?
>
> Scott:
> In my point of view, there is no non-negated without differentiation, 
> which
> is what I oppose in your essentialism. There is no undivided source
> ontologically prior to differentiation or negation, nor is differentiation 
> a
> source. There is, that is, no source above and beyond what is, which is 
> CI,
> which is consciousness, value, and/or semiosis (or a bunch of other
> non-things), depending on the point one wants to make. Such a source is an
> idol. I like to think (but could be wrong) that CI avoids being turned 
> into
> an idol because it cannot be thought through (cannot be "understood").
>
> - Scott
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