عنوان

Deep Physics

Number

LA129706

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Deep Physics

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Andreas Weber

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

Feeling is the existential experience of being matter from the inside. Feeling entangles us with the whole, parallel to the entanglement between observer and observed described in modern physics. Understanding organisms as embodied feeling is the missing link to making sense of the weirdness of modern physics, particularly the fact that the 'observer' is always connected to the 'objects' described (so-called 'entanglement'). In organisms, such entanglement is created through subjective experience-feeling. Feeling is entanglement experienced as inwardness, and as desire for more entanglement in order to unfold and live (Spinoza's 'Conatus'). Through inner experience organisms reveal that 'observations' are not made by 'observers' about 'objects', but actually are the inward aspect of the world's involvement with itself. Every standpoint is an experience of the whole getting in touch with itself. This panpsychic view can help us understand the degree to which all of reality is profused with subjectivity, and how our own subjective experience is an experience which the whole makes about being itself. With this, we are able to formulate a 'general theory of conativity'. This views the desire for mutual transformation and its accompanying creation of standpoints of meaning and concern as an irreducible feature of reality. Feeling is the existential experience of being matter from the inside. Feeling entangles us with the whole, parallel to the entanglement between observer and observed described in modern physics. Understanding organisms as embodied feeling is the missing link to making sense of the weirdness of modern physics, particularly the fact that the 'observer' is always connected to the 'objects' described (so-called 'entanglement'). In organisms, such entanglement is created through subjective experience-feeling. Feeling is entanglement experienced as inwardness, and as desire for more entanglement in order to unfold and live (Spinoza's 'Conatus'). Through inner experience organisms reveal that 'observations' are not made by 'observers' about 'objects', but actually are the inward aspect of the world's involvement with itself. Every standpoint is an experience of the whole getting in touch with itself. This panpsychic view can help us understand the degree to which all of reality is profused with subjectivity, and how our own subjective experience is an experience which the whole makes about being itself. With this, we are able to formulate a 'general theory of conativity'. This views the desire for mutual transformation and its accompanying creation of standpoints of meaning and concern as an irreducible feature of reality.

Date of Publication

2017

Physical description

290-306

Title

Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology

Volume Number

21/3

International Standard Serial Number

1568-5357

Subject Term

conatus

Subject Term

entanglement

Subject Term

feeling

Subject Term

general theory of conativity

Subject Term

panpsychism

Andreas Weber

Call Number

10.1163/15685357-02103007

Electronic name

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[Article]

275578

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