Relations toward the world:
1. coopt
2. consume
3. absorb
4. copulate
5. inhabit
6. explore
7. communicate
8. observe
9. love
10. know.
Elements of sensory (and eventually cognitive) perception:
K=kinetic, V=visual, H=hearing.
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There is a general progression from kinesthesis -- the direct
impingement of the external world, in Phase I -- to vision in Phase II,
to hearing -- the most spiritual of senses, the sense belonging to
relatedness -- is Stage III.
• Touch, taste and smell are the
kinesthetic triad. Smell represents a relatively spiritual,
incorporeal mechanism for apprehending an object without having to
contact it directly.
• The elements of vision are: light (or brightness), color, shape.
• Hearing consists of: rhythm, pitch, harmony. Hearing is the first sense which occurs along the axis of time.
1. (K) heat (touch)
2. (K) texture (taste)
3. (V) light
4. (K) smell
5.
(V) color (N.b. fish apprehend flashes of color without grasping the
separateness of objects. The apprehension of movement is a perception
of changes of color.)
6. (H) rhythm (N.b. sound begins to gives a
certain meaning to the visual spectrum. Reptiles are the first
creatures capable of noticing something -- and the first to participate
in the simultaneous gestalt of tactility, vision and hearing.)
7. (H) pitch (N.b. birds generate coded sequences of pitch, but the latter do not rise to the level of harmony.)
8.
(V) shape (N.b. shape is essentially the apprehension of the separate
identity of individual objects. Shape is also critical to mammals'
perception of the shapes of bodies, for purposes of body language.
Mammal shape-apprehension is the last hurrah of the unethical visual
free-for-all of Phase II -- while still also constituting a remarkably
cognitive, sophisticated phenomenon, in its distinction of objects from
the environment.)
9. (H) harmony (N.b. harmony, in its visceralism,
really is a primitive. Qua the conjunction or sequence of two pitches,
harmony is the beginning of meaning. In a sense, it is the first sense
to recognize two things at once, or the possibility of change.)
10.
pattern (N.b. pattern is "extra-sensory" insofar as it operates
reflectively upon the data supplied the senses -- kinesthetic, visual
or auditory. Pattern-recognition is the basis of cognition, especially
in the form of abductive reasoning.)
Emotional relations:
1. action
2. need
3. desire
4. compulsion
5. morality
6. aspiration
7. choice
8. possibility
9. vocation
10. holism
Conceptual differences/logical relations:
1. identity: A is A
2. difference/contradiction:A is not B
3. degree: A is greater than, higher than B
4. opposition/complementarity: A is the opposite of B
5. equivalence: A is the same as B
6. sequence: A comes after B
7. category/member: A is a member of B
8. quality: A has the quality of B
9. causation: A leads to B
10. likeness: A is similar to B