[MD] subject / object logic

[Ham Priday]

Hi Platt --

[Ham said]:
> So perhaps, instead of asking "Does time exist?" we should start
> by asking "Do WE exist?"

[Platt asks]:
> Could you ask the question if you didn't exist?

I could not ask the question without a body, if "asking" means writing or 
verbalizing it.  However, pondering the question requires only my 
intellectual awareness.  The intellectual function requires a working 
central nervous system which is my organic counterpart but not my awareness 
itself.

The question then is: What is meant by "the real me"?

If the real me is that biological object by whose physical identity and 
behavior you identify Ham Priday, it exists.  On the other hand, if the real 
me is my subjective awareness -- my self-consciousness -- it is known only 
to me and has no objective existence.

Cognizant awareness is a unique phenomenon in that it "borrows from being" 
to exist, yet is fundamentally not an existent.  Man may be the only 
creature that straddles the S/O fence dividing subject from object, being 
from non-being.  As a self-conscious entity, he is endowed with the capacity 
to realize the duality of existence.  As for breaking down this duality into 
differentiated objects in space/time, I side with Micah in explaining this 
as "affective experience".  In other words, man creates the objects of his 
experience.

Essentially yours,
Ham