[MD] Objectivism and the MOQ

[Ham Priday]

Hey there, Platt --

I said I thought that anonymous quote that "My mind is not in my body; my
body is in my mind" was right on.  (Maybe you can find out who originated
it.)  I went on to say ...
> Not only my body but the entire universe is
> in my mind; it is the being of my existence,
> my identity.

You asked:
> Ham, what's the mind in?

You see, there's the problem.  The mind (individual awareness) isn't "in"
anything, because it doesn't exist without content.  So I can't explain it
in terms that you'll accept as "logical".  Proprietary awareness (PA for
short, as coined by Laramie) is the potentiality of a nothing-subject to
become sensible of an individuated perspective -- that of the Self toward
its undifferentiated object (Otherness).  It's a "valuistic" perspective in
that it is sensed as something desired by the subject.

This split between subject and object, self and other, is the "actualized
mode" of Essence.  The negated self seeks to reclaim its estranged essence
which it senses as Value, and it abstracts (acquires) this value
incrementally from Essence.  In the process, the intellect interprets this
acquired value as an "external object" that exists relative to the self.
But the concept of finite beings existing in a space/time system is an
illusion of the mind; that is to say, the entire "construct" is subjective.
(Note that my epistemology directly opposes the Randian view, as outlined by
Peikoff, that reality is objective.)

Cheers, and thanks,
Ham