Re: Mirror neurons
On Sep 6, 2007, at 8:51 AM, Ted Winslow wrote:
Doug Henwood quoted Jefferson Airplane:
“You call it rain but the human name doesn’t mean shit to a tree.” - Jefferson Airplane
The full appropriation of “beauty” requires a fully developed subjective capability. So too does the creation of the highest forms of the objectively “beautiful”.
“Materialism” of the kind now dominant also has no logical space for the “subjectivity” of beauty in this sense, since it has no logical space for the the kind of “subject” it requires.
Carrol has long demonstrated his aversion to subjectivity, so I’m not
surprised by this.
And of course the Jeff Airplane has a point, even though it sorta
sounds like dumb hippie shit, though they weren’t dumb themselves. I
wouldn’t want to anthropomorphize the universe. But what bothers me
about Joanna and Carrol’s positions is that they seem bereft of
appreciation for humanity’s better side. I say that as a fellow
human, not from some vantage point high in the heavens. Why care
about radical politics at all if you don’t share some appreciation
for us as a species full of possibilities?
Doug