Hierarchy Index Cards - C
HW Carr — Philosophy of Change
Card-C-16-01. Date: Ripon, Aug 14 1945. The Brain and Realism.
Card-C-16-01. DEH: The mind body problem is no academic one: our purpose, our raison-d’être, is its solution.
Card-C-16-02 Diagram
Card-C-16-04 Time. DH: Consider: Light from star is light of 945AD, not of 1945AD, when the star is 1000 light years away. My consciousness of the star is 945AD consciousness. I see right into the past, just as I act right into the future.
Card-C-16-03 DEH …the preliminary stage of retreating to the centre, nullifying your personality, is essential to knowledge. Alert passivity.
Card-C-16-04 Diagram
Card-C-16-04 DEH I see right into the past, just as I act right into the future.
Card-C-16-07 Diagram
Card-C-16-11. Carr [Ripon August 1945 — reading Carr then] DEH: When you see the Object under the form of a man (I.e. when you see a man) you have penetrated the Object thus far, and stopped. Other observers of the same Object see It as SS, Earth, Mo, atoms etc. One is a more, or less, penetrating observer, literally. Alice.
Card-C-16-12 Diagram
Card-C-16-13. DH: Ripon August 15, 45. (V-J day)
Card-C-16-14 Diagram
Card-C-16-14. DH: The law is that you can only observe a monad at its own life-tempo.
[working out the equality of subject and object]
Card-C-16-16. DEH: to see the thing at all is to conform to its tempo…. We can say that the level of an object is a function if its distance from us. From a plane I see you as Soc. Also, from the plane, the rush of the city is stilled. Withdraw, and the tempo slows down. The trains crawl. They take several minutes to cross my window pane. I am seeing Soc at its tempo, or am approaching Soc’s tempo rather.
Card-C-16-16 Diagram
Card-C-16-17 Diagram
Card-C-16-20. DH: The point is that your radiation changes its character as it expands — Carr misses this. It is impossible to be a man to observer at more than a certain range.
Card-C-16-20 Diagram
[Douglas is profoundly engaged with the ideas of Carr, accepting some of them, disagreeing with others. Using Carr to work out his own view.]
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