Steve C.
>Just a juxtaposition:
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>Physicists believe in a "true world" in their own fashion: a firm
>systematization of atoms in necessary motion, the same for all beings - so
>for them the "apparent world" is reduced to the side of universal and
>universally necessary being which is accessible to every being in its own
>way (accessible and also already adapted - "made subjective"). But they are
>in error. The atom they posit is inferred according to the logic of the
>perspectivism of consciousness - and is therefore itself a subjective
>fiction. The world picture they sketch differs in no essential way from the
>subjective world picture: it is only construed with more extended senses,
>but with our senses nonetheless - And in any case they left something out .
>. .
>
> Friedrich Nietzsche, Will to Power (trans.: R. J. Hollingdale and Walter
>Kaufmann; ed.: Walter Kaufmann), New York: Vintage Books (1968), pp.
>339-340
>
>Forste wrote:
>
>>The eternal recurrence is a neurological phenomenon, and is
>>exquisitely bound up with physics, but it is the physics of
>>neurophysiology that we need to examine, not the physics of
>>Alpha and Omega.
>
>>Leeson makes a juxtaposition of my comment with a bit of text from
>a book that N himself did not choose to publish. I don't have my
>library handy, but I hope that when I refer to N's praise (in the
>works that he did choose to publish, and prepared for the press
>himself) of physiology and his call for philosophers to pay more
>attention to such things as the exquisite analytical power of the
>human sense of smell, people won't have much trouble finding these
>citations.
>
>I said:
> > exquisitely bound up with physics
>
>but "exquisitely bound up with physiology" would have worked
>just as well.
>
>Leeson's quote said:
> > a firm systematization of atoms in necessary motion
>
>but my text with which he juxtaposed this made no mention of atoms,
>since no such mention was needed.
>
>I might also juxtapose N's refutation of metaphysical idealism, in
>which he painted that quaint notion as the idea that the sense
>organs create themselves through their own action. That's in BEYOND
>GOOD AND EVIL. If Leeson can find any text of N's to juxtapose in
>which N (who was always suffering from splitting headaches) questions
>the existence of sense organs and nerves, I'd be interested to see
>it.
>
>I've disclaimed the relevance of discussions of atomism to the text
>I wrote. Nonetheless, I might point out that N wrote the text
>Leeson has chosen into one of his private notebooks several decades
>before the Perrin experiment, which tested and failed to break
>Einstein's atomistic explanation of the Brownian motion. I suspect
>that N might have phrased things rather differently after being
>informed of this experiment. Particularly if he were planning to
>publish.
>
>--
>Eric Watt Forste ++ arkuat@pobox.com ++ expectation foils perception -pcd
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