Dear Filippo,
I'm not sure that saying it again will make it any clearer. Face-to-face we could probably resolve the things very quickly.
Any event is positive - that is, it happened - a zero in binary is a positive state - a zero in an abacus is a negative state (it is the state of simply the absence of a counter). When we read an abacus, we treat the absence as a presence or else the system makes no sense.
So, all events, in consciousness, to be an event in consciousness, must be deemed positive (existing). However, when we are conscious of being conscious, we treat the positive moment as negative by virtue of treating the moment as possibly being other than itself. The disjunctive (or) is the basic logic of thinking - the conjunctive (and) is a sub-logic based on the disjunctive.
hope this helps
keith
>>> "Filippo A. Salustri" <[log in to unmask]> 04/04/11 1:32 PM >>>
Keith,
Sorry, but could you explain the paragraph below one more time? I really
want to get it, but I'm not at the moment.
Cheers.
Fil
On 3 April 2011 22:04, Keith Russell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> [...]
> However, other than the logically positive moment in time whereby an
> activity takes place in consciousness (that is, a thought occurred),
> consciousness is typified by negative or analytical processes. That is, when
> I announce the thought to a self (myself if you must), it is audited within
> a cycle of production (materialization) and reception -- and hence there are
> multiple moments and a self for each moment. If we negate the initial self
> (I had a thought) and allow that maybe it was someone else who had the
> though, in my thinking space (domain) then we have radically de-privileged
> not the thought (it still is a hard positive moment) but the soft positive
> moment that I had the thought. Thinking now becomes a passive event in which
> there is a non-I who apprehends that a non-I experienced a thought in a
> thinking space that a non-I is open to engaging with.
> [...]
> This is ok, and it is fun to do it - it's call detachment in Buddhism - for
> many people it is disturbing if not bordering on madness.
>
>
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